2 Corinthians 8:8
I do not say this by way of command, but by the zeal of others I am trying to prove the reality of your love.
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Romans 12:9Let love be without insincerity. Abhor what is evil; wed yourselves to what is good.
1 Corinthians 7:12To the rest it is I who am speaking, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife who is not a believer, if he is willing to live with her, let him not send her away.
2 Corinthians 6:6with purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; by the Holy Spirit, by love sincere,
2 Corinthians 8:10And I will give you my opinion in this matter; for this offering is fitting in your case, considering that you made a beginning before others, not only in the willingness to do something but also in actually doing something a year ago.
2 Corinthians 9:2for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority 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 →