2 Corinthians 9:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

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  • 2 Cor 8:10 : 10 And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
  • 2 Cor 8:8 : 8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
  • 2 Cor 8:24 : 24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
  • 1 Cor 16:15 : 15 I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and [that] they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
  • Heb 10:24 : 24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
  • 2 Cor 1:1 : 1 ¶ Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy [our] brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
  • 2 Cor 7:4 : 4 Great [is] my boldness of speech toward you, great [is] my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
  • Acts 18:12 : 12 ¶ And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat,
  • 1 Thess 1:7 : 7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
  • 2 Cor 8:19 : 19 And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind:

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  • 2 Cor 9:3-5
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    3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

    4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

    5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] covetousness.

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

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    7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

    8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

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    10 And herein I give [my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

    11 Now therefore perform the doing [of it]; that as [there was] a readiness to will, so [there may be] a performance also out of that which ye have.

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    14 As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

    15 ¶ And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

    16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

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    9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all [things] I have 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 boasting in the regions of Achaia.

  • 2 Cor 8:1-3
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    1 ¶ Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

    2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

    3 For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves;

  • 8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

  • 8 ¶ Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

  • 24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

  • 19 And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind:

  • 4 Great [is] my boldness of speech toward you, great [is] my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

  • 21 Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

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    15 Not boasting of things without [our] measure, [that is], of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

    16 To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

  • Phil 1:25-26
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    25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

    26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

  • 13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and unto all [men];

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

  • 17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.

  • 16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all [things].

  • 12 ¶ For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to [answer] them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

  • 10 ¶ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

  • 14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which [I made] before Titus, is found a truth.

  • 11 For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, [what] clearing of yourselves, yea, [what] indignation, yea, [what] fear, yea, [what] vehement desire, yea, [what] zeal, yea, [what] revenge! In all [things] ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

  • 17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

  • 13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

  • 17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.

  • 5 ¶ For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

  • 12 ¶ For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

  • 3 And I wrote this same unto you, 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.

  • 4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

  • 5 For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

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

  • 22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which [I have] in you.

  • 5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

  • 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

  • 14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

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    1 ¶ For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

    2 But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

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