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2 Corinthians 8:7

But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, be that ye may also abound in this kindness.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6for us to urge Titus that, as he earlier began this kindness, so he would even finish it for you also.

8I speak not from commandment, but because of the zeal of others, also examining the genuineness of your love.

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Cross References

Romans 15:14And I also myself am persuaded about you, my brothers, that ye yourselves are also full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

1 Corinthians 4:7For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

1 Corinthians 12:13For also by one Spirit we are all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or freemen, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 13:8Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they will be abolished, whether tongues, they will cease, whether knowledge, it will be abolished.

2 Corinthians 7:7And not only by his presence, but also by the encouragement with which he was encouraged by you, reporting to us your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced the more.

2 Corinthians 9:8And God is able to abound all grace for you, so that always in everything having all sufficiency, ye may abound for every good work,

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 8:2-7

Charity of the Macedonians. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5 And this… Read the whole commentary →

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