2 Corinthians 8:20
Auoiding this, that no man shoulde blame vs in this aboundance that is ministred by vs,
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- Matt 10:16 : 16 Behold, I send you as sheepe in the middes of the wolues: be yee therefore wise as serpents, and innocent as doues.
- Rom 14:16 : 16 Cause not your commoditie to be euill spoken of.
- 1 Cor 16:3 : 3 And when I am come, whomsoeuer ye shal alowe by letters, them will I send to bring your liberalitie vnto Hierusalem.
- 2 Cor 11:12 : 12 But what I doe, that will I doe: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like vnto vs in that wherein they reioyce.
- Eph 5:15 : 15 Take heede therefore that yee walke circumspectly, not as fooles, but as wise,
- 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Absteine from all appearance of euill.
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21 Prouiding for honest thinges, not onely before the Lord, but also before men.
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18 And wee haue sent also with him the brother, whose praise is in the Gospel throughout al the Churches.
19 (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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3 We giue no occasion of offence in any thing, that our ministerie shoulde not be reprehended.
4 But in all things we approue our selues as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
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3 Nowe 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:
4 Lest 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.
5 Wherefore, 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.
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13 Neither is it that other men should be eased and you grieued: But vpon like condition, at this time your abundance supplieth their lacke:
14 That also their aboundance may bee for your lacke, that there may be equalitie:
15 As it is written, Hee that gathered much, had nothing ouer, and hee that gathered litle, had not the lesse.
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4 And praied vs with great instance that we woulde receiue the grace, and felowship of the ministring which is toward the Saints.
5 And 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,
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.
8 This say I not by commaundement, but because of the diligence of others: therefore prooue I the naturalnesse of your loue.
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3 For our exhortation was not by deceite, nor by vncleannes, nor by guile.
4 But 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.
5 Neither yet did we euer vse flattering wordes, as ye knowe, nor coloured couetousnes, God is recorde.
6 Neither 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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8 For though I shoulde boast somewhat more of our authoritie, which the Lorde hath giuen vs for edification, and not for your destruction, I should haue no shame.
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8 Neither tooke we bread of any man for nought: but we wrought with labour and trauaile night and day, because we would not be chargeable to any of you.
9 Not because we haue not authoritie, but that we might make our selues an ensample vnto you to follow vs.
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15 Not boasting of things which are without our measure: that is, of other mens labours: and we hope, when your faith shall increase, to bee magnified by you according to our line aboundantly,
16 And 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.
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2 Receiue vs: we haue done wrong to no man: we haue corrupted no man: we haue defrauded no man.
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12 If others with you bee partakers of this power, are not we rather? neuerthelesse, we haue not vsed this power: but suffer all things, that we should not hinder the Gospel of Christ.
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12 For 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.
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1 Therefore, seeing that we haue this ministerie, as we haue receiued mercy, we faint not:
2 But haue cast from vs ye clokes of shame, and walke not in craftines, neither handle we the worde of God deceitfully: but in declaration of the trueth we approue our selues to euery mans conscience in the sight of God.
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11 That on all partes yee may bee made rich vnto all liberalitie, which causeth through vs thanksgiuing vnto God.
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)
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12 For we prayse not our selues againe vnto you, but giue you an occasion to reioyce of vs, that ye may haue to answere against them, which reioyce in the face, and not in the heart.
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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.
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8 I robbed other Churches, and tooke wages of them to doe you seruice.
9 And 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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24 Wherefore shew toward them, and before the Churches the proofe of your loue, and of the reioycing that we haue of you.
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1 For as touching the ministring to the Saints, it is superfluous for me to write vnto you.
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12 But what I doe, that will I doe: that I may cut away occasion from them which desire occasion, that they might be found like vnto vs in that wherein they reioyce.
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13 But we wil not reioyce of things, which are not within our measure, but according to the measure of the line, whereof God hath distributed vnto vs a measure to attaine euen vnto you.
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19 Againe, thinke yee that wee excuse our selues vnto you? we speake before God in Christ. But wee doe all thinges, dearely beloued, for your edifying.
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1 Let a man so thinke of vs, as of the ministers of Christ, and disposers of the secrets of God:
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33 I haue coueted no mans siluer, nor gold, nor apparell.
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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,
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9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and trauaile: for we laboured day & night, because we would not be chargeable vnto any of you, and preached vnto you the Gospel of God.
10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and iustly, and vnblameably we behaued our selues among you that beleeue.
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32 Giue none offence, neither to the Iewes, nor to the Grecians, nor to the Church of God:
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8 And (as we are blamed, & as some affirme, that we say) why doe we not euil, that good may come thereof? whose damnation is iust.