2 Corinthians 8:8

Generosity In Giving

⁷ but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound; ⁸ not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness, ⁹ for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

In the Spirit

No

1 Corinthians 7:6

and this I say by way of concurrence -- not of command,

Joshua 24:14

'And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah;

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

Romans 11:12-14

and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

Romans 12:9

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

1 Corinthians 7:12

And to the rest I speak -- not the Lord -- if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

1 Corinthians 7:25

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

2 Corinthians 6:6

in pureness, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

2 Corinthians 8:1-3

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

2 Corinthians 8:10

and an opinion in this do I give: for this to you is expedient, who not only to do, but also to will, did begin before -- a year ago,

2 Corinthians 8:24

the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

2 Corinthians 9:2

for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,

2 Corinthians 9:7

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

Ephesians 4:15

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him in all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

Ephesians 6:24

The grace with all those loving our Lord Jesus Christ -- undecayingly! Amen.

Hebrews 10:24

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

James 2:14-16

What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

1 Peter 1:22

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

1 John 3:17-19

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?