2 Corinthians 8:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

This say I not by commaundement, but because of ye feruentnesse of other, & alowing the vnfaynednes of your loue.

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  • 1 Cor 7:6 : 6 This I say of fauour, & not of commaundement.
  • 1 Cor 7:12 : 12 But to the renmaunt speake I, not the Lorde: If any brother haue a wife that beleueth not, if she be content to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Nowe concerning virgins I haue no commaundement of the Lord: yet geue I counsell, as one that hath obtayned mercy in the Lorde to be faythfull.
  • 2 Cor 6:6 : 6 In watchynges, in fastinges, in purenesse, in knowledge, in long suffryng, in kyndnesse, in the holy ghost, in loue vnfaigned:
  • 2 Cor 8:1-3 : 1 Moreouer, we do you to wite brethren, of the grace of God, which was geuen in the Churches of Macedonia. 2 Howe that ye aboundance of their reioycing is, that they are tryed with muche tribulation. And though they were exceedyng poore, yet haue they geuen exceedyng rychlye, and that in singlenesse. 3 For to their powers (I beare them recorde) yea & beyonde their powers, they were wyllyng.
  • 2 Cor 8:10 : 10 And I geue councell hereto: For this is expedient for you, which haue begun not to do only, but also to wil a yere ago.
  • 2 Cor 8:24 : 24 Wherfore shewe ye vnto them ye profe of your loue, & of our reioycyng of you in the syght of the Churches.
  • 2 Cor 9:2 : 2 For I knowe the redinesse of your mynde, whereof I boast my selfe of you, vnto them of Macedonia, that Achaia was prepared a yere a go: and your zeale hath prouoked many.
  • 2 Cor 9:7 : 7 Let euery man do, accordyng as he hath purposed in his heart, not grudgyngly, or of necessitie: For God loueth a chearefull geuer.
  • Eph 4:15 : 15 But folowyng trueth in loue, let vs growe vp into him in all thynges whiche is the head, Christ:
  • Eph 6:24 : 24 Grace be with all them whiche loue our Lorde Iesus Christe in sinceritie. Amen. Sent from Rome vnto the Ephesians, by Tichicus.
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 And let vs consider one another to prouoke vnto loue and good workes,
  • Jas 2:14-16 : 14 What profiteth it my brethren, though a man say he hath fayth, and hath not deedes? Can fayth saue hym? 15 If a brother or a sister be naked, and destitute of dayly foode, 16 And one of you say vnto them, depart in peace, be you warmed and fylled: notwithstandyng, ye geue them not those thinges which are nedefull to, the body, what shall it profite?
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Euen ye which haue purified your soules through the spirite in obeying the trueth, with brotherly loue vnfayned, see that ye loue one another with a pure heart feruentlye:
  • 1 John 3:17-19 : 17 But who so hath this worldes good, and seeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compassion from hym: howe dwelleth the loue of God in hym? 18 My babes, let vs not loue in worde, neither in tongue: but in deede and in veritie. 19 Hereby we knowe that we are of the trueth, and shall assure our heartes before hym.
  • Josh 24:14 : 14 Nowe therfore feare the Lorde, and serue him in perfectnesse and trueth, and put away the goddes whiche your fathers serued on the other side of ye fludde and in Egypt, and serue ye the Lorde.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come vnto thee as the people vseth to come, and my people syt before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they do not therafter: for in their mouthes they make a iest of them, and their heart goeth after their couetousnes.
  • Rom 11:12-14 : 12 Nowe, yf the fall of them be ye ryches of the worlde, and the minishyng of the, the ryches of the gentiles: Howe much more their fulnesse? 13 For I speake to you gentiles, in as much as I am the Apostle of the gentiles, I magnifie myne office. 14 If by any meane I may prouoke the which are my fleshe, and myght saue some of them.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Loue without dissimulation, hatyng euyll, cleauyng to good.

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