2 Corinthians 8:8

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Summary

2 Corinthians 8:8

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

Speak

2 Corinthians 8:10

2 Corinthians 9:7

1 Corinthians 7:6

By occasion

Prove

General references

Bible References

Speak

And in this I give judgment, for this is expedient for you who earlier began, from a year ago, not only the doing but also the intending.

Each man as he purposes in his heart, not from regret or from necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.

But I say this from concession not from commandment.

By occasion

And, brothers, we declare to you the grace of God that has been given in the congregations of Macedonia,

For I know your willingness, which I boast about you to the Macedonians, that Achaia was prepared from a year ago. And your zeal provoked the majority.

Now if their transgression is wealth of the world, and their failure is wealth of Gentiles, how much more their fullness?

And let us examine each other for provocation of love and good works.

Prove

Therefore show ye the proof of your love and our boast about you, for them in the face of the congregations.

in purity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in Holy Spirit, in non-hypocritical love,

Now therefore fear LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. And put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye LORD.

And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people. And they hear thy words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Love without hypocrisy, abhorring what is evil, clinging to what is good,

But being truthful in love, we may cause all things to grow for him who is the head--the Christ--

What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him?

Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,

But whoever has the world's living, and sees his brother having need, and closes his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

General references

And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

And thou shall remember that thou were a bondman in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Honor LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase,

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Therefore show ye the proof of your love and our boast about you, for them in the face of the congregations.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.