2 Corinthians 8:6

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • 2 Cor 12:18 : 18 I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?
  • 2 Cor 8:4 : 4 beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:
  • 2 Cor 8:16-17 : 16 But thanks be to God, who putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. 17 For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth unto you of his own accord.
  • 2 Cor 8:19 : 19 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:
  • 2 Cor 9:5 : 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.
  • Phil 4:18 : 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.
  • 1 Pet 4:10 : 10 according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

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  • 2 Cor 8:7-11
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    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.

    10And 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.

    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.

  • 2 Cor 8:4-5
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    4beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

    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.

  • 2 Cor 8:16-17
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    16But thanks be to God, who putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

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

  • Phil 1:6
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    6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

  • 2 Cor 12:18
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    18I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? walked we not in the same spirit? [walked we] not in the same steps?

  • 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:

  • 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.

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

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11To which end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfil every desire of goodness and [every] work of faith, with power;

    12that 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.

  • 2 Cor 7:13-15
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    13Therefore we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.

    14For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

    15And his affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

  • 2 Cor 8:22-24
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    22and 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.

    23Whether [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.

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

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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 8:19-20
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    19and 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:

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

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    1And working together [with him] we entreat also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

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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;

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    8who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 1:5-6
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    5that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;

    6even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

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

    8For 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.

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    6But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also [to see] you;

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    6that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.

  • Col 1:6
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    6which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as [it doth] in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

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    8Wherefore I beseech you to confirm [your] love toward him.

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

  • Col 1:8-10
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    8who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

    9For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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

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    12and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;

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    11ye 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.

    12For 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.

    13For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:

    14as 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.

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

  • 2 Cor 9:5
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    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.

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    10night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?