2 Corinthians 8:10

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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.

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  • 1 Cor 7:25 : 25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
  • 2 Cor 9:2 : 2 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.
  • 1 Tim 6:18-19 : 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • 1 Cor 7:40 : 40 But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgment: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
  • Prov 19:17 : 17 He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
  • 1 Cor 16:2 : 2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
  • 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.
  • Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
  • Phil 4:17 : 17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
  • 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
  • Matt 10:42 : 42 And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
  • John 11:50 : 50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
  • John 16:7 : 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
  • John 18:14 : 14 Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
  • 1 Cor 6:12 : 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
  • 1 Cor 10:23 : 23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

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    12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

    13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

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

    2 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.

    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.

    6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

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    5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

    6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

    7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

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

    9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

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    9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

    10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

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    10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

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

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    15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

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

    6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

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    8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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    10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

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

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

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    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.

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    11 Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.