2 Corinthians 8:19

American Standard Version (1901)

and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in [the matter of] this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and [to show] our readiness:

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  • 1 Cor 16:3-4 : 3 And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem: 4 and if it be meet for me to go also, they shall go with me.
  • 2 Cor 4:15 : 15 For all things [are] for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound unto the glory of God.
  • 2 Cor 8:1-4 : 1 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia; 2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, [they gave] of their own accord, 4 beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:
  • 2 Cor 8:6-7 : 6 Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also. 7 But 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. [
  • 2 Cor 9:8 : 8 And 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 9:12-14 : 12 For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God; 13 seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all; 14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.
  • Phil 4:18-19 : 18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things [that came] from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God. 19 And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God; 11 if any man speaketh, [speaking] as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, [ministering] as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
  • Acts 6:3-6 : 3 Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will continue stedfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word. 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus a proselyte of Antioch; 6 whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.
  • Acts 15:22 : 22 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; [namely], Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:
  • Acts 15:25 : 25 it seemed good unto us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    18 And we have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the gospel [is spread] through all the churches;

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    20 Avoiding this, that any man should blame us in [the matter of] this bounty which is ministered by us:

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

    22 and we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which [he hath] in you.

    23 Whether [any inquire] about Titus, [he is] my partner and [my] fellow-worker to you-ward, or our brethren, [they are] the messengers of the churches, [they are] the glory of Christ.

    24 Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

  • 2 Cor 8:1-8
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    1 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;

    2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

    3 For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, [they gave] of their own accord,

    4 beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

    5 and [this], not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

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

    7 But 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. [

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

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    12 For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;

    13 seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;

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    14 as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

    15 And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

    16 and 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 Cor 9:1-5
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    1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

    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.

    3 But 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:

    4 lest 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.

    5 I 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.

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    7 so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

    8 For from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith to God-ward is gone forth; so that we need not to speak anything.

  • 27 And when he was minded to pass over into Achaia, the brethren encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him: and when he was come, he helped them much that had believed through grace;

  • 3 And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem:

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    11 ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.

    12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

  • 16 so as to preach the gospel even unto the parts beyond you, [and] not to glory in another's province in regard of things ready to our hand.

  • 3 John 1:6-7
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    6 who bare witness to thy love before the church: whom thou wilt do well to set forward on their journey worthily of God:

    7 because that for the sake of the Name they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

  • 25 it seemed good unto us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,

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

  • 4 but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

  • 2 and all the brethren that are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

  • 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 8 even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

  • 6 nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

  • 5 how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.

  • 4 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

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

  • 2 Cor 11:8-9
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    8 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them] that I might minister unto you;

    9 and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and [so] will I keep [myself] .

  • 40 but Paul choose Silas, and went forth, being commended by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.

  • 13 whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

  • 9 not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, that ye should imitate us.

  • 7 even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.