2 Corinthians 9:2

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • 2 Cor 8:10 : 10 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.
  • 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.
  • 2 Cor 8:24 : 24 Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.
  • 1 Cor 16:15 : 15 Now I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to minister unto the saints),
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;
  • 2 Cor 1:1 : 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:
  • 2 Cor 7:4 : 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
  • Acts 18:12 : 12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,
  • 1 Thess 1:7 : 7 so that ye became an ensample to all that believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
  • 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:

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  • 2 Cor 9:3-5
    3 verses
    84%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
    77%

    1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • 1 Thess 1:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 8:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 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.

    11 But 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 1:14-16
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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 11:9-10
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    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] .

    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this glorying in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 8:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    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,

  • 2 Cor 8:8
    72%

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

  • Phlm 1:8
    71%

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

  • 2 Cor 8:24
    71%

    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 8:19
    71%

    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 7:4
    71%

    4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • Phlm 1:21
    71%

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

  • 2 Cor 10:15-16
    2 verses
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    15 not glorying beyond [our] measure, [that is], in other men's labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto [further] abundance,

    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.

  • Phil 1:25-26
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    25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide, yea, and abide with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith;

    26 that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

  • 2 Cor 9:13
    70%

    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;

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

  • 2 Cor 8:17
    70%

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

  • 2 Cor 7:16
    70%

    16 I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

  • 2 Cor 5:12
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    12 We are not again commending ourselves unto you, but [speak] as giving you occasion of glorying on our behalf, that ye may have wherewith to answer them that glory in appearance, and not in heart.

  • Phil 4:10
    70%

    10 But 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.

  • 2 Cor 7:14
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    14 For 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.

  • 2 Cor 7:11
    69%

    11 For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.

  • Phil 1:17
    69%

    17 but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

  • Rom 1:13
    69%

    13 And I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you (and was hindered hitherto), that I might have some fruit in you also, even as in the rest of the Gentiles.

  • 1 Cor 16:17
    69%

    17 And I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they supplied.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    69%

    5 For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 2 Cor 1:12
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Cor 2:3
    69%

    3 And I wrote this very thing, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is [the joy] of you all.

  • 2 Thess 1:4
    69%

    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;

  • 1 Thess 3:5
    69%

    5 For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

  • Rom 1:15
    69%

    15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.

  • 2 Cor 8:22
    68%

    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.

  • Phil 1:5
    68%

    5 for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;

  • Rom 10:2
    68%

    2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

  • Phil 1:14
    68%

    14 and that most of the brethren in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

  • 1 Thess 2:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entering in unto you, that it hath not been found vain:

    2 but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we waxed bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God in much conflict.

  • Phil 1:19
    68%

    19 For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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