2 Corinthians 9:13

World English Bible (2000)

seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all;

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  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 9:8 : 8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
  • Luke 6:46 : 46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and don't do the things which I say?
  • John 15:8 : 8 "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
  • Acts 4:21 : 21 When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.
  • Acts 11:18 : 18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, "Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!"
  • Acts 21:19-20 : 19 When he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry. 20 They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
  • Rom 10:16 : 16 But they didn't all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
  • 2 Cor 2:12 : 12 Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
  • 2 Cor 8:4 : 4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
  • 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
  • Gal 1:24 : 24 And they glorified God in me.
  • 1 Tim 6:12 : 12 Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
  • Heb 3:1 : 1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
  • Heb 4:14 : 14 Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
  • Heb 10:23 : 23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • 1 Pet 4:11 : 11 If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
  • Ps 50:23 : 23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

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  • 2 Cor 9:7-12
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    7 Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

    8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

    9 As it is written, "He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever."

    10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

    11 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

    12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

  • 2 Cor 9:14-15
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    14 while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

    15 Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

  • 2 Cor 8:1-5
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    1 Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;

    2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.

    3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

    4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

    5 This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

  • 2 Cor 8:19-20
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    19 Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

    20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1 It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,

  • 2 Cor 1:11-12
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    11 you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

    12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

  • 2 Cor 9:5
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    5 I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.

  • 2 Cor 4:15
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    15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

  • 2 Cor 8:13-14
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    13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,

    14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.

  • 2 Cor 2:9
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    9 For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

  • 1 Thess 3:9
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    9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;

  • 2 Cor 8:7-9
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    7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

    8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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

  • 3 John 1:6-7
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    6 They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

    7 because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

  • 1 Thess 1:7-9
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    7 so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.

    8 For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.

    9 For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

  • 2 Thess 1:3-4
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    3 We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

    4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

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    11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

  • 2 Thess 1:12
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    12 that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
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    17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

    18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

  • Col 1:25
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    25 of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

  • 1 Thess 2:13
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    13 For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

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    10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

  • Phlm 1:6
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    6 that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 15:26-27
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    26 For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem.

    27 Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.

  • Rom 1:9
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    9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

  • Rom 15:16
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    16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 1:4-5
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    4 I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

    5 that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;

  • 2 Cor 11:9
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    9 When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn't a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.