2 Corinthians 8:20

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

For thys we eschue that eny man shuld rebuke vs in this plenteous distribucion that is ministred by vs

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 10:16 : 16 Beholde I sende you forthe as shepe amoge wolves. Be ye therfore wyse as serpetes and innocent as doves.
  • Rom 14:16 : 16 Cause not youre treasure to be evyll spoken of.
  • 1 Cor 16:3 : 3 When I am come whosoever ye shall alowe by youre letters them will I sende to bringe youre liberalite vnto Ierusalem.
  • 2 Cor 11:12 : 12 Neverthe lesse what I doo that will I do to cut awaye occasion from them which desyre occasion that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs in that wherin they reioyce.
  • Eph 5:15 : 15 Take hede therfore that ye walke circuspectly: not as foles: but as wyse
  • 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Abstayne from all suspicious thinges.

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  • 21and therfore make provision for honest thynges not in the sight of god only but also in the sight of men.

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    18We haue sent with him that brother whose laude is in the gospell thorow out all the congregacions:

    19and not so only but is also chosen of the congregacions to be a felowe with vs in oure iorney concerninge this benivolence that is ministred by vs vnto the prayse of ye LORde and to stere vp youre prompt mynde.

  • 2 Cor 6:3-4
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    3Let vs geve no man occasion of evyll that in oure office be founde no faute:

    4but in all thynges let vs behave oure selves as the ministers of God. In moche pacience in afflicios in necessite in anguysshe

  • 2 Cor 9:3-5
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    3Never thelesse yet have I sent these brethren lest oure reioysynge over you shuld be in vayne in this behalfe and that ye (as I have sayd) preparare youre selues

    4lest paraveture yf they of Macedonia come with me and fynde you vnprepared the boost that I made in this matter shuld be a shame to vs: I saye not vnto you.

    5Wherfore I thought it necessary to exhorte the brethren to come before hode vnto you forto prepare youre good blessynge promysed afore that it myght be redy: so yt it be a blessynge and not a defraudynge.

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    13It is not my mynde that other be set at ease and ye brought into combraunce:

    14but that ther be egalnes now at this tyme that youre aboundaunce sucker their lacke: that their aboundaunce maye supplie youre lacke:

    15that ther maye be equalite agreynge to that which is written. He that gaddered moche had never the more aboundaunce and he yt gaddered lytell had never the lesse.

  • 2 Cor 8:4-8
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    4and prayed vs with great instaunce that we wolde receave their benefite and suffre them to be parttakers with other in ministrynge to the saynctes.

    5And this they did not as we loked for: but gave their awne selves fyrst to the LORde and after vnto vs by the will of God:

    6so that we coulde not but desyre Titus to acomplysshe the same benivolence amonge you also even as he had begonne.

    7Now therfore as ye are ryche in all parties in fayth in worde in knowledge in all fervetnes and in love which ye have to vs: even so se that ye be plenteons in this benivolence.

    8Thys saye I not as commaundynge: but be cause other are so fervent therfore prove I youre love whether it be perfait or no.

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    3Oure exhortacion was not to brynge you to erroure nor yet to vnclennes nether was it with gyle:

    4but as we were alowed of God that the gospell shuld be comitted vnto vs: even so we speake not as though we entended to please men but God which trieth oure hertes.

    5Nether was oure conversacion at eny tyme wt flatterynge wordes as ye well knowe nether in cloked coveteousnes God is recorde:

    6nether sought we prayse of men nether of you nor yet of eny other when we myght have bene chargeable as the apostles of Christ

  • 8And though I shuld bost my silfe somewhat moare of oure auctorite which the LORde hath geven vs to edifie and not to destroye you it shulde not be to my shame.

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    8Nether toke we breed of eny ma for nought: but wrought with laboure and travayle nyght and daye because we wolde not be grevous to eny of you:

    9not but that we had auctoritie: but to make oure selves an insample vnto you to folowe vs.

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    15and we bost not oure selves out of measure in other mens labours. Ye and we hope when youre fayth is increased amoge you to be magnified acordynge to oure measure more largely

    16and to preache ye gospell in those regions which are beyode you: and not to reioyce of that which is by another mans measure prepared all redy.

  • 2Vnderstonde vs. we have hurte no man: we have corrupte no man: we have defrauded no man.

  • 12Yf other be parttakers of this power over you? wherfore are not we rather. Neverthelesse we have not vsed this power: but suffre all thinges lest we shuld hynder the gospell of Christ.

  • 12Oure reioysynge is this the testimony of oure coscience yt in synglenes and godly purenes and not in flesshly wysdome but by the grace of God we have had oure conuersacion in the worlde and most of all to you wardes.

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    1Therfore seinge that we have soche an office eve as mercy is come on vs we faynte not:

    2but have cast from vs the clokes of vnhonestie and walke not in craftines nether corrupte we the worde of God: but walke in open trueth and reporte oure selves to every mannes conscience in the sight of God.

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    11that on all parties ye maye be made ryche in all synglenes which causeth thorowe vs thankes gevynge vnto god.

    12For the office of this ministracion not only supplieth the nede of the sayntes: but also is aboundaunt herein that for this laudable ministrynge thankes myght be geven to god

    13of many whiche prayse god for the obedience of youre professynge ye gospell of Christ and for youre synglenes in distributynge to them and to all me:

  • 12We prayse not oure selves agayne vnto you but geve you an occasion to reioyce of vs that ye maye have some what agaynst the whych reioyce in the face and not in the hert.

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    1I do you to wit brethren of the grace of god which is geven in the congregacions of Macedonia

    2how that the aboundaunce of their reioysing is that they are tried wt moche tribulacio. And therto though they were excedinge poore yet haue they geue excedinge richly and that in singlenesse.

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    8I robbed other congregacions and toke wages of the to do you service with all.

    9And when I was present with yov and had nede I was greuous to no man for that which was lackynge vnto me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all thynges I kept my silfe that I shuld not be greveous to you: and so will I kepe my silfe.

  • 24Wherfore shewe vnto them the proffe of youre love and of the reioysynge that we have of you that ye congregacions maye se it.

  • 1Of the ministrynge to ye saynctes it is but superfluous for me to write vnto you:

  • 12Neverthe lesse what I doo that will I do to cut awaye occasion from them which desyre occasion that they myght be founde lyke vnto vs in that wherin they reioyce.

  • 13But we wyll not reioyce above measure: but accordynge to the quantitie of ye measure which god hath distributed vnto vs a measure that reacheth even vnto you.

  • 19Agayne thynke ye yt we excuse oure selves? We speake in Christ in the sight of God. But we do all thynges dearly beloved for youre edifyinge.

  • 1Let men this wyse esteme vs eve as the ministers of Christ and disposers of ye secretes of God.

  • 33I have desyred no mas silver golde or vesture.

  • 8God is able to make you ryche in all grace that ye in all thynges havynge sufficiet vnto the vttmoste maye be ryche vnto all manner good workes

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    9Ye remember brethre oure laboure and travayle. For we laboured daye and nyght because we wolde not be greveous vnto eny of you and preached vnto you ye gospell of God.

    10Ye are witnesses and so is god how holyly and iustly and vnblameable we behaved oure selves amonge you that beleve:

  • 32Se that ye geve occasion of evell nether to ye Iewes nor yet to the gentyls nether to ye cogregacion of god:

  • 8and saye not rather (as men evyll speake of vs and as some affirme that we saye) let vs do evyll that good maye come therof. Whose damnacion is iuste.