2 Corinthians 8:8

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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 herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

By occasion

Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Prove

Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

General references

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

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.