2 Corinthians 8
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Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;

to.

2 Corinthians 9:6,7 But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; …

Mark 14:8 She has done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my …

Acts 11:29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined …

1 Corinthians 16:2 On the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, …

1 Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man …

I bear.

Romans 10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according …

Galatians 4:15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, …

Colossians 4:13 For I bear him record, that he has a great zeal for you, and them …

beyond.

2 Corinthians 8:12,16,17 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to …

Exodus 35:5,21,22,29 Take you from among you an offering to the LORD: whoever is of a …

1 Chronicles 29:5,6,9,13-17 The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, …

Psalm 110:3 Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties …

1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against …

Philippians 2:13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

1 Thessalonians 2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have …

Philemon 1:14 But without your mind would I do nothing; that your benefit should …

1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, …

Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

that.

2 Corinthians 8:18,19 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel …

Genesis 33:10,11 And Jacob said, No, I pray you, if now I have found grace in your …

2 Kings 5:15,16 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, …

Acts 16:15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she sought us, saying, …

1 Corinthians 16:3,4 And when I come, whomsoever you shall approve by your letters, them …

the ministering.

2 Corinthians 9:1,12-14 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous …

Matthew 10:42 And whoever shall give to drink to one of these little ones a cup …

Matthew 12:50 For whoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the …

Matthew 25:40,44,45 And the King shall answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Inasmuch …

Mark 14:7 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you …

John 19:26,27 When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, …

Acts 6:1 And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, …

Acts 9:39-41 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought …

Acts 11:29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined …

Acts 24:17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

Romans 15:25,26 But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints…

1 Corinthians 16:1,3,4,15 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order …

Galatians 2:10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which …

Galatians 6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good to all men, especially …

1 Timothy 5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, …

Philemon 1:5,6 Hearing of your love and faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus, …

Hebrews 6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, …

1 John 3:16-18 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life …

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

as.

Romans 15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you also …

1 Corinthians 1:5 That in every thing you are enriched by him, in all utterance, and …

1 Corinthians 4:7 For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that …

1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be …

1 Corinthians 14:12 Even so you, for as much as you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek …

Revelation 3:17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need …

faith.

1 Corinthians 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, …

knowledge.

1 Corinthians 8:1,2 Now as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have …

1 Corinthians 13:8 Charity never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall …

in your.

2 Corinthians 7:7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation with which he …

see.

2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always …

Philippians 1:9,11 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge …

1 Thessalonians 4:9,10 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write to you: …

2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is meet, …

1 Peter 1:22 Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through …

2 Peter 1:5-8 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; …

this.

2 Corinthians 8:6 So that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also …

2 Corinthians 9:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding …

Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that …

2 Timothy 2:1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 12:28 Why we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, …

2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus …

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

the grace.

2 Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the …

John 1:14,17 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory…

Romans 5:8,20,21 But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, …

1 Corinthians 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which …

Ephesians 1:6-8 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted …

Ephesians 2:7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his …

Ephesians 3:8,19 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given…

though.

Psalm 102:25-27 Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens …

John 1:1-4,10 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the …

John 16:15 All things that the Father has are mine: therefore said I, that he …

1 Corinthians 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Colossians 1:16,17 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that …

Hebrews 1:2,6-14 Has in these last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he has appointed …

for.

Isaiah 62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake …

Isaiah 65:8 Thus said the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and …

John 12:30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.

John 17:19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified …

Colossians 1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which …

he became.

Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root …

Matthew 8:20 And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the …

Matthew 17:27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go you to the sea, and …

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, …

Mark 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, …

Luke 2:7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling …

Luke 8:3 And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many …

Luke 9:58 And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have …

Philippians 2:6-8 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God…

that ye.

2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; …

Luke 16:11 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, …

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, …

Romans 11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing …

1 Corinthians 3:21,22 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours…

Ephesians 3:8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given…

1 Timothy 6:18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, …

James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this …

Revelation 3:18 I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be …

Revelation 21:7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, …

And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.
But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;

the brother. This is generally supposed to have been Said. Luke, 'whose praise was in all the churches,' on account of the gospel which he had written, and for many zealous services in its cause.

2 Corinthians 8:19,22,23 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel …

2 Corinthians 12:18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a …

throughout.

Romans 16:4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only …

And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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