Parallel Verses
Moffatt New Testament
I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
Holman Bible
I am not saying this as a command. Rather, by means of the diligence of others, I am testing the genuineness of your love.
International Standard Version
I am not commanding you but testing the genuineness of your love by the enthusiasm of others.
A Conservative Version
I speak not from commandment, but because of the zeal of others, also examining the genuineness of your love.
American Standard Version
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
Amplified
I am not saying this as a command [to dictate to you], but to prove, by [pointing out] the enthusiasm of others, the sincerity of your love as well.
An Understandable Version
I am not saying this [to you] as a command, but by telling you how eager others are [to help], to find out how genuine your love is also.
Anderson New Testament
I do not speak this as a commandment, but on account of the zeal of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
Bible in Basic English
I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.
Common New Testament
I am not speaking this as a command, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.
Daniel Mace New Testament
I don't mean to prescribe to you, but that the zeal of others may show you are as sincerely well-affected.
Darby Translation
I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.
Godbey New Testament
I speak not according to commandment, but through the zeal of others also proving the sincerity of your divine love.
Goodspeed New Testament
I do not mean this as a command. I only want to test the genuineness of your love by the devotion of others.
John Wesley New Testament
I speak not by way of command, but that by the diligence of others, I may prove the sincerity of your love.
Julia Smith Translation
I speak not according to command, but by care of others, trying also the purity of your love.
King James 2000
I speak not by commandment, but to prove by the earnestness of others, the sincerity of your love.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I am not saying [this] as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others.
Modern King James verseion
I do not speak according to command, but through the eagerness of others, and testing the trueness of your love.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
This say I not as commanding: but because others are so fervent, therefore prove I your love, whether it be perfect or no.
Montgomery New Testament
I do not say this by way of command, but by the zeal of others I am trying to prove the reality of your love.
NET Bible
I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.
New Heart English Bible
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
Noyes New Testament
I speak not by way of command, but by reason of the earnestness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.
Sawyer New Testament
I do not speak by command, but on account of the diligence of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love;
The Emphasized Bible
Not by way of injunction, do I speak, but through, others', earnestness, and, the genuineness of your own love, putting to the test.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
I speak not by commandment, but because of the forwardness of others, and to prove the genuineness of your love.
Twentieth Century New Testament
I am not laying a command upon you, but I am making use of the earnestness shown by others to test the genuineness of your affection.
Webster
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
Weymouth New Testament
I am not saying this by way of command, but to test by the standard of other men's earnestness the genuineness of your love also.
Williams New Testament
I am not saying this in the spirit of a command, but I am simply trying to test the genuineness of your love by the enthusiasm of others.
World English Bible
I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
Worrell New Testament
I am not speaking by way of command; but as proving, through the diligence of others, the sincerity of your love.
Worsley New Testament
I speak not by way of command, but to prove the sincerity of your love also, by means of the forwardness of others.
Youngs Literal Translation
not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,
Themes
Love to man » Saints should » Be sincere in
The poor » Care for » Should be urged
Sincerity » Should characterize » Our love to God
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 2 Corinthians 8:8
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Context Readings
Generosity In Giving
7 Now then, you are to the front in everything, in faith, in utterance, in knowledge, in all zeal, and in love for us ??do come to the front in this gracious enterprise as well. 8 I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is. 9 (You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 7:6
But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.
Romans 11:12-14
Well, if their lapse has enriched the world, if their defection is the gain of the Gentiles, what will it mean when they all come in?
Romans 12:9
Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.
1 Corinthians 7:12
To other people I would say (not the Lord): ??if any brother has a wife who is not a believer, and if she consents to live with him, he must not put her away;
1 Corinthians 7:25
I have no orders from the Lord for unmarried women, but I will give you the opinion of one whom you can trust, after all the Lord's mercy to him.
2 Corinthians 6:6
with innocence, insight, patience, kindness, the holy Spirit, unaffected love,
2 Corinthians 8:1-3
Now, brothers, I have to tell you about the grace God has given to the churches of Macedonia.
2 Corinthians 8:10
But I will tell you what I think about it; it is to your interest to go on with this enterprise, for you started it last year, you were the first not merely to do anything but to want to do anything.
2 Corinthians 8:24
So let them have proof of how you can love, and of my reasons for being proud of you; it will be a proof read by the churches.
2 Corinthians 9:2
I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Everyone is to give what he has made up his mind to give; there is to be no grudging or compulsion about it, for God loves the giver who gives cheerfully.
Ephesians 4:15
we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,
Ephesians 6:24
Grace be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 10:24
and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds ??25 not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.
James 2:14-16
My brothers, what is the use of anyone declaring he has faith, if he has no deeds to show? Can his faith save him?
1 Peter 1:22
Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.
1 John 3:17-19
But whoever possesses this world's goods, and notices his brother in need, and shuts his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?