2 Corinthians 8:11

And now I want you to complete the work, so that its completion may correspond with your willing readiness – in proportion, of course, to your means.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10I am only making suggestions on this matter; for this is the best course for you, since you were a year before others, not only in taking action, but also in showing your readiness to do so.

12For, where there is willingness, a person’s gift is valued by its comparison with what they have, and not with what they do not have.

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Cross References

2 Corinthians 9:2I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 8:8-16

Charity Urged. ( a. d. 57.) 7 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. 8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. 9 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. 10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient… Read the whole commentary →

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