2 Corinthians 9:13

American Standard Version (1901)

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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  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 9:8 : 8 But when the multitudes saw it, they were afraid, and glorified God, who had given such authority unto men.
  • Luke 6:46 : 46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
  • John 15:8 : 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; and [so] shall ye be my disciples.
  • Acts 4:21 : 21 And they, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for that which was done.
  • Acts 11:18 : 18 And when they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also hath God granted repentance unto life.
  • Acts 21:19-20 : 19 And when he had saluted them, he rehearsed one by one the things which God had wrought among the Gentiles through his ministry. 20 And they, when they heard it, glorified God; and they said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of them that have believed; and they are all zealous for the law:
  • Rom 10:16 : 16 But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
  • Rom 16:26 : 26 but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:
  • 2 Cor 2:12 : 12 Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,
  • 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 10:5 : 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
  • Gal 1:24 : 24 and they glorified God in me.
  • 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
  • Heb 3:1 : 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, [even] Jesus;
  • Heb 4:14 : 14 Having then a great high priest, who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
  • Heb 10:23 : 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 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.
  • Ps 50:23 : 23 Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way [aright] Will I show the salvation of God.

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  • 2 Cor 9:7-12
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    7[ Let] each man [do] according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

    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:

    9as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever.

    10And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness:

    11ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.

    12For 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;

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    14while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, long after you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

    15Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

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

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

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

    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.

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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:

  • 1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to 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.

  • 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.

  • 15For 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.

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    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:

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

  • 9For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

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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.

  • 3 John 1:6-7
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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:

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

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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.

    9For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

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    3We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;

    4so 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;

  • 11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

  • 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.

  • 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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    17For if I do this of mine own will, I have a reward: but if not of mine own will, I have a stewardship intrusted to me.

    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

  • 25whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,

  • 13And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, [even the word] of God, ye accepted [it] not [as] the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

  • 10for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

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

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    26For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem.

    27Yea, it hath been their good pleasure; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it [to them] also to minister unto them in carnal things.

  • 9For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

  • 16that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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    4I thank my God always concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

    5that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;

  • 9and 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] .