2 Corinthians 8:19

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(And not so onely, but is also chosen of the Churches to be a fellowe in our iourney, concerning this grace that is ministred by vs vnto the glorie of the same Lorde, and declaration of your prompt minde)

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  • 1 Cor 16:3-4 : 3 And when I am come, whomsoeuer ye shal alowe by letters, them will I send to bring your liberalitie vnto Hierusalem. 4 And if it be meete that I goe also, they shall goe with me.
  • 2 Cor 4:15 : 15 For all thinges are for your sakes, that that most plenteous grace by the thankesgiuing of many, may redound to the praise of God.
  • 2 Cor 8:1-4 : 1 We doe you also to wit, brethren, of the grace of God bestowed vpon the Churches of Macedonia, 2 Because in great triall of affliction their ioy abounded, and their most extreeme pouertie abounded vnto their rich liberalitie. 3 For to their power (I beare record) yea, and beyonde their power, they were willing, 4 And praied vs with great instance that we woulde receiue the grace, and felowship of the ministring which is toward the Saints.
  • 2 Cor 8:6-7 : 6 That we should exhort Titus, that as hee had begon, so he would also accomplish the same grace among you also. 7 Therefore, as yee abound in euery thing, in faith and woorde, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your loue towardes vs, euen so see that yee abound in this grace also.
  • 2 Cor 9:8 : 8 And God is able to make all grace to abound towarde you, that yee alwayes hauing all sufficiencie in all thinges, may abounde in euery good worke,
  • 2 Cor 9:12-14 : 12 For the ministration of this seruice not onely supplieth the necessities of the Saintes, but also aboundantly causeth many to giue thankes to God, 13 (Which by the experiment of this ministration praise God for your voluntarie submission to the Gospell of Christ, and for your liberall distribution to them, and to all men) 14 And in their praier for you, to log after you greatly, for the aboundant grace of God in you.
  • Phil 4:18-19 : 18 Now I haue receiued all, and haue plentie: I was euen filled, after that I had receiued of Epaphroditus that which came from you, an odour that smelleth sweete, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasant to God. 19 And my God shall fulfill all your necessities through his riches with glorie in Iesus Christ.
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 Let euery man as hee hath receiued the gift, minister the same one to another, as good disposers of the manifolde grace of God. 11 If any man speake, let him speake as the wordes of God. If any man minister, let him do it as of the abilitie which God ministreth, that God in al things may be glorified through Iesus Christ, to whome is prayse and dominion for euer, and euer, Amen.
  • Acts 6:3-6 : 3 Wherefore brethren, looke ye out among you seuen men of honest report, and full of the holy Ghost, and of wisedome, which we may appoint to this busines. 4 And we will giue our selues continually to prayer, and to the ministration of the worde. 5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Steuen a man full of fayth and of the holy Ghost, and Philippe, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a Proselyte of Antiochia, 6 Which they set before the Apostles: and they prayed, and layed their hands on them.
  • Acts 15:22 : 22 Then it seemed good to the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church, to sende chosen men of their owne companie to Antiochia with Paul and Barnabas: to wit, Iudas whose surname was Barsabas and Silas, which were chiefe men among the brethren,
  • Acts 15:25 : 25 It seemed therefore good to vs, when we were come together with one accord, to send chosen men vnto you, with our beloued Barnabas and Paul,

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  • 2 Cor 8:17-18
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    17Because hee accepted the exhortation, yea, hee was so carefull that of his owne accorde hee went vnto you.

    18And wee haue sent also with him the brother, whose praise is in the Gospel throughout al the Churches.

  • 2 Cor 8:20-24
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    20Auoiding this, that no man shoulde blame vs in this aboundance that is ministred by vs,

    21Prouiding for honest thinges, not onely before the Lord, but also before men.

    22And we haue sent with them our brother, whom we haue oft times prooued to be diligent in many thinges, but nowe much more diligent, for the great confidence, which I haue in you.

    23Whether any doe inquire of Titus, he is my fellowe and helper to you ward: or of our brethren, they are messengers of the Churches, and the glorie of Christ.

    24Wherefore shew toward them, and before the Churches the proofe of your loue, and of the reioycing that we haue of you.

  • 2 Cor 8:1-8
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    1We doe you also to wit, brethren, of the grace of God bestowed vpon the Churches of Macedonia,

    2Because in great triall of affliction their ioy abounded, and their most extreeme pouertie abounded vnto their rich liberalitie.

    3For to their power (I beare record) yea, and beyonde their power, they were willing,

    4And praied vs with great instance that we woulde receiue the grace, and felowship of the ministring which is toward the Saints.

    5And this they did, not as we looked for: but gaue their owne selues, first to the Lorde, and after vnto vs by the will of God,

    6That we should exhort Titus, that as hee had begon, so he would also accomplish the same grace among you also.

    7Therefore, as yee abound in euery thing, in faith and woorde, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your loue towardes vs, euen so see that yee abound in this grace also.

    8This say I not by commaundement, but because of the diligence of others: therefore prooue I the naturalnesse of your loue.

  • 2 Cor 9:12-13
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    12For the ministration of this seruice not onely supplieth the necessities of the Saintes, but also aboundantly causeth many to giue thankes to God,

    13(Which by the experiment of this ministration praise God for your voluntarie submission to the Gospell of Christ, and for your liberall distribution to them, and to all men)

  • 2 Cor 1:14-16
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    14Euen as ye haue acknowledged vs partly, that we are your reioycing, euen as ye are ours, in the day of our Lord Iesus.

    15And in this confidence was I minded first to come vnto you, that ye might haue had a double grace,

    16And to passe by you into Macedonia, and to come againe out of Macedonia vnto you, and to be led foorth towarde Iudea of you.

  • 2 Cor 9:1-5
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    1For as touching the ministring to the Saints, it is superfluous for me to write vnto you.

    2For I knowe your readinesse of minde, whereof I boast my selfe of you vnto them of Macedonia, and say, that Achaia was prepared a yeere agoe, and your zeale hath prouoked many.

    3Nowe haue I sent the brethren, lest our reioycing ouer you shoulde bee in vaine in this behalfe, that yee (as I haue sayde) be readie:

    4Lest if they of Macedonia come with me, and finde you vnprepared, we (that wee may not say, you) should be ashamed in this my constant boasting.

    5Wherefore, I thought it necessarie to exhort the brethren to come before vnto you, and to finish your beneuolence appointed afore, that it might be readie, and come as of beneuolence, and not as of niggardlinesse.

  • 1 Thess 1:7-8
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    7So that ye were as ensamples to all that beleeue in Macedonia and in Achaia.

    8For from you sounded out the worde of the Lord, not in Macedonia and in Achaia only: but your faith also which is toward God, spred abroad in all quarters, that we neede not to speake any thing.

  • Acts 18:27
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    27And when hee was minded to goe into Achaia, the brethren exhorting him, wrote to the disciples to receiue him: and after hee was come thither, he holpe them much which had beleeued through grace.

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    3And when I am come, whomsoeuer ye shal alowe by letters, them will I send to bring your liberalitie vnto Hierusalem.

  • 2 Cor 1:11-12
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    11So that ye labour together in prayer for vs, that for the gift bestowed vpon vs for many, thankes may be giuen by many persons for vs.

    12For our reioycing is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly purenesse, and not in fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God wee haue had our conuersation in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.

  • 2 Cor 10:16
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    16And to preache the Gospel in those regions which are beyonde you: not to reioyce in another mans line, that is, in the thinges that are prepared alreadie.

  • 3 John 1:6-7
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    6Which bare witnesse of thy loue before the Churches. Whom if thou bringest on their iourney as it beseemeth according to God, thou shalt doe well,

    7Because that for his Names sake they went forth, and tooke nothing of the Gentiles.

  • Acts 15:25
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    25It seemed therefore good to vs, when we were come together with one accord, to send chosen men vnto you, with our beloued Barnabas and Paul,

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieued: But vpon like condition, at this time your abundance supplieth their lacke:

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4But as we were allowed of God, that the Gospel should be committed vnto vs, so we speake, not as they that please men, but God, which approoueth our hearts.

  • Gal 1:2
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    2And all the brethren which are with me, vnto the Churches of Galatia:

  • 2 Thess 1:12
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    12That the Name of our Lorde Iesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God, and of the Lorde Iesus Christ.

  • 1 Thess 2:8
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    8Thus being affectioned toward you, our good will was to haue dealt vnto you, not the Gospel of God onely, but also our owne soules, because ye were deare vnto vs.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6Neither sought we prayse of men, neither of you, nor of others, when we might haue bene chargeable, as the Apostles of Christ.

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    5For our Gospell was not vnto you in worde only, but also in power, and in the holy Ghost, and in much assurance, as ye know after what maner we were among you for your sakes.

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    4So that we our selues reioyce of you in the Churches of God, because of your patience & faith in al your persecutions & tribulatios that ye suffer,

  • Gal 2:10
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    10Warning onely that we should remember the poore: which thing also I was diligent to doe.

  • 2 Cor 11:8-9
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    8I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice.

    9And when I was present with you, and had neede, I was not slouthfull to the hinderance of any man: for that which was lacking vnto me, the brethre which came from Macedonia, supplied, and in all thinges I kept and will keepe my selfe, that I should not be grieuous to you.

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    40And Paul chose Silas and departed, being commended of the brethren vnto the grace of God.

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    13Whom I woulde haue reteined with mee, that in thy steade he might haue ministred vnto me in the bondes of the Gospel.

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    9Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.

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    7As it becommeth me so to iudge of you all, because I haue you in remembrance that both in my bands, and in my defence, & confirmation of the Gospell you all were partakers of my grace.