2 Corinthians 8:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For while he gladly gave ear to our request, he was interested enough to go to you from the impulse of his heart.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 8:6 : 6 So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.
  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
  • 2 Cor 8:10 : 10 And in this I give my opinion: for it is to your profit, who were the first to make a start a year before, not only to do this, but to make clear that your minds were more than ready to do it.
  • Heb 13:22 : 22 But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Cor 8:16
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    16 But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.

  • 2 Cor 8:22-24
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    22 And we have sent with them our brother, whose ready spirit has been made clear to us at times and in ways without number, but it is now all the more so because of the certain faith which he has in you.

    23 If any question comes up about Titus, he is my brother-worker, working with me for you; or about the others, they are the representatives of the churches to the glory of Christ.

    24 Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.

  • 2 Cor 8:18-19
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    18 And with him we have sent a brother whose praise in the good news has gone through all the churches;

    19 And not only so, but he was marked out by the churches to go with us in the grace of this giving which we have undertaken to the glory of the Lord and to make clear that our mind was ready:

  • 2 Cor 8:3-8
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    3 For I give them witness, that as they were able, and even more than they were able, they gave from the impulse of their hearts,

    4 Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:

    5 And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.

    6 So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.

    7 And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

    8 I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

  • 2 Cor 7:12-16
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    12 So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.

    13 So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.

    14 For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

    15 And his love to you is the more increased by his memory of you all, how you gave way to his authority, and how you took him to your hearts with fear and honour.

    16 It gives me great joy to see you answering to my good opinion of you in every way.

  • Acts 18:27
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    27 And when he had a desire to go over into Achaia, the brothers gave him help, and sent letters to the disciples requesting them to take him in among them: and when he had come, he gave much help to those who had faith through grace:

  • 2 Cor 7:7
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    7 And not by his coming only, but by the comfort which he had in you, while he gave us word of your desire, your sorrow, your care for me; so that I was still more glad.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

  • 2 Cor 12:18
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    18 I gave orders to Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus make any profit out of you? were we not guided by the same Spirit, in the same ways?

  • 2 Cor 1:15-16
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    15 And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;

    16 And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea.

  • Phlm 1:21
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    21 Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.

  • 2 Cor 9:5
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    5 So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

  • 1 Thess 2:8
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    8 Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.

  • 1 Thess 1:6-8
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    6 And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;

    7 So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.

    8 For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.

  • 2 Cor 9:2-3
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    2 For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.

    3 But I have sent the brothers, so that the good things we said about you may be seen to be true, and that, as I said, you may be ready:

  • Rom 15:15
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    15 But I have, in some measure, less fear in writing to you to put these things before you again, because of the grace which was given to me by God,

  • 2 Cor 1:11-12
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    11 You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.

    12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1 And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

  • Phil 2:28
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    28 I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

  • 1 Thess 3:1
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    1 At last our desire to have news of you was so strong that, while we ourselves were waiting at Athens,

  • 2 Cor 2:8
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    8 For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.

  • Phlm 1:15
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    15 For it is possible that for this reason he was parted from you for a time, so that you might have him for ever;

  • Acts 11:23
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    23 Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts:

  • 1 Thess 2:2
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    2 But after we had first undergone much pain and been cruelly attacked as you saw, at Philippi, by the help of God we gave you the good news without fear, though everything was against us.

  • 1 Thess 3:6
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    6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

  • 2 Cor 8:10
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    10 And in this I give my opinion: for it is to your profit, who were the first to make a start a year before, not only to do this, but to make clear that your minds were more than ready to do it.

  • 3 John 1:6-7
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    6 Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:

    7 For they went out for love of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

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    17 But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

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    1 Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.

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    12 For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

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    10 And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;

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    13 Though my desire was to keep him with me, to be my servant in the chains of the good news, in your place: