2 Corinthians 8:16
But thanks be to God, which putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
In Context
15as it is written, He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 31:8And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD, and his people Israel.
Nehemiah 2:12And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
Jeremiah 32:40and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
2 Corinthians 7:7and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.
Philippians 2:20For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state.
Revelation 17:17For God did put in their hearts to do his mind, and to come to one mind, and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
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 →