2 Corinthians 8:10

American Standard Version (1901)

And herein I give [my] judgment: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to make a beginning a year ago, not only to do, but also to will.

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  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.
  • 2 Cor 9:2 : 2 for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.
  • 1 Tim 6:18-19 : 18 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 19 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is [life] indeed.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • 1 Cor 7:40 : 40 But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.
  • Prov 19:17 : 17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto Jehovah, And his good deed will he pay him again.
  • 1 Cor 16:2 : 2 Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
  • Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?
  • Phil 4:17 : 17 Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.
  • 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 I must needs glory, though it is not expedient; but I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • Matt 10:42 : 42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward.
  • John 11:50 : 50 nor do ye take account that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
  • John 16:7 : 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.
  • John 18:14 : 14 Now Caiaphas was he that gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.
  • 1 Cor 10:23 : 23 All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

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  • 2 Cor 8:11-14
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    11But now complete the doing also; that as [there was] the readiness to will, so [there may be] the completion also out of your ability.

    12For if the readiness is there, [it is] acceptable according as [a man] hath, not according as [he] hath not.

    13For [I say] not [this] that others may be eased [and] ye distressed;

    14but by equality: your abundance [being a supply] at this present time for their want, that their abundance also may become [a supply] for your want; that there may be equality:

  • 2 Cor 9:1-6
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    1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

    2for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.

    3But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:

    4lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

    6But this [I say], He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

  • 2 Cor 8:5-9
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    5and [this], not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

    6Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

    7But as ye abound in everything, [in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also. [

    8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

    9For 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 become rich.

  • Phil 1:9-10
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    9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

    10so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

  • 1 Thess 4:10
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    10for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8Wherefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to enjoin thee that which is befitting,

  • 1 Tim 4:15
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    15Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

  • Phil 1:5-6
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    5for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;

    6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

  • Gal 2:10
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    10only [they would] that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

  • 2 Pet 1:8
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    8For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 1:15-16
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    15And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

    16and by you to pass into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come unto you, and of you to be set forward on my journey unto Judaea.

  • 2 Pet 1:10-11
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    10Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble:

    11for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 8:20-21
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    20Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:

    21for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

  • 3 John 1:6
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    6who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:

  • 2 Cor 9:8
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    8And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work:

  • 2 Cor 8:17
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    17For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth unto you of his own accord.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye are obedient in all things.

  • Phlm 1:21
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    21Having confidence in thine obedience I write unto thee, knowing that thou wilt do even beyond what I say.

  • Titus 3:8
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    8Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men:

  • Phil 3:13
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    13Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing [I do], forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

  • 1 Tim 6:18
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    18that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

  • Phil 4:10
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    10But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.

  • Phil 3:15-16
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    15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:

    16only, whereunto we have attained, by that same [rule] let us walk.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye.

  • Heb 6:11
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    11And we desire that each one of you may show the same diligence unto the fulness of hope even to the end:

  • Rom 12:11
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    11in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

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    10to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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    9Give diligence to come shortly unto me:

  • Gal 6:10
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    10So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

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    8which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

  • 2 Cor 10:11
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    11Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such [are we] also in deed when we are present.