2 Corinthians 8:22

Webster's Bible (1833)

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

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  • Phil 2:20-22 : 20 For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you. 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. 22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Gospel.

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  • 2 Cor 8:16-21
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    16But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

    17For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

    18We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Gospel is known through all the assemblies.

    19Not 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.

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

    21Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

  • 2 Cor 8:23-24
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    23As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

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

  • 2 Cor 7:13-16
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    13Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

    14For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

    15His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

    16I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

  • Phlm 1:21
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    21Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.

  • 2 Cor 12:18
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    18I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn't we walk in the same spirit? Didn't we walk in the same steps?

  • 1 Thess 3:1-2
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    1Therefore, when we couldn't stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

    2and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

  • 2 Thess 3:4
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    4We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.

  • 2 Cor 9:3-4
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    3But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,

    4so that I won't by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.

  • Phlm 1:7-8
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    7For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

    8Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • 2 Cor 8:4-8
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    4begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

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

    6So we urged Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

    7But 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.

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

  • 2 Cor 1:12-13
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    12For 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.

    13For we write no other things to you, than what you read or even acknowledge, and I hope you will acknowledge to the end;

  • Phil 2:22-23
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    22But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Gospel.

    23Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

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    15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

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    22whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.

  • 2 Cor 3:4
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    4Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

  • Phil 2:28
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    28I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

  • Col 4:7-9
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    7All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

    8I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

    9together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.

  • 2 Cor 7:4
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    4Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

  • 1 Thess 3:5-7
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    5For this cause I also, when I couldn't stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

    6But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;

    7for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

  • Phil 1:14
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    14and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

  • 2 Cor 7:7
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    7and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you, while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced still more.

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5and that our Gospel came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

  • Phlm 1:16
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    16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

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

  • 1 Thess 2:2
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    2but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Gospel of God in much conflict.

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

  • Phil 2:25
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    25But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and minister to my need;