Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.

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1 Corinthians 15:58

So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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Diligence » Saints should abound in

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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Christ, our example » Conformity to, required in » Benevolence

Acts 20:35

"In all things I have set you an example, how that so toiling, you ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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Faith » Saints should » Abound in

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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Fruit, spiritual » Conditions of fruit-bearing » Christian graces exemplify

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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2 Peter 1:5-6

For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge, and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,

Romans 5:3-4

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude, and fortitude character, and character, hope??5 a hope which never disappoints us. For through the Holy Spirit who has given to us, the "brimming river of the love of God" has overflowed in our hearts.

2 Corinthians 6:6

with purity, understanding, patience, and kindness; by the Holy Spirit, by love sincere,

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2 Peter 1:7

and to piety brotherly love, and to brotherly love, love itself.

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Liberality » Should be exercised » Abundantly

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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2 Corinthians 9:11-13

You yourselves will be enriched with all good things, that you may give ungrudgingly; and your gifts, of which I am the agent, will make men give thanks to God. Because the ministry of this contribution not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also overflows in many a thanksgiving to God. For this ministration proves you. On account of it men glorify God for your faithfulness to your professions of the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your gifts to them and to all.

Love to man » Saints should » Provoke each other to

2 Corinthians 9:2

for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

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2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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Hebrews 10:24

and let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and good works;

Ministers » Their people are bound, to » Love them

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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1 Thessalonians 3:6

But now that Timothy has returned from you to me, and has brought good news of your faith and love, and that you are still holding me in affectionate remembrance, always longing to see me as I also am longing to see you.

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The poor » Care for » Should be urged

2 Corinthians 8:7-8

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also. 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.

Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Utterance

Acts 2:4

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

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Colossians 4:3

Keep on praying for me, too, that God may open for me a door of utterance to speak the secret truth of Christ, for which I am a prisoner.

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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Ephesians 6:19

and for me, that utterance may be given me to open my mouth boldly, and to make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador,

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1 Corinthians 1:5

that in everything you have been enriched in him, in all speech, and in all knowledge

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Tact » Paul » In stimulating benevolent giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-8

Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia. For although in heavy trial of affliction, their overbrimming happiness, even in spite of their deep poverty, abounded to the opulence of their unselfishness. For I can testify that according to their ability, and even beyond their ability, of their own free will, too, they have given help. read more.
With earnest entreaty they craved of me the privilege of a share in ministering to the saints in Jerusalem. And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me. With the result that I have been begging Titus that, as he had been the one to begin the work with you, so he should complete among you this grace also. Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also. 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.

2 Corinthians 9:1-5

It is indeed unnecessary for me to write you in regard to the ministration to the saints at Jerusalem, for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them. Nevertheless I am sending the brothers in order that my boast about you may not prove vain in this instance; so that, as I kept saying, you may be prepared. read more.
For if any Macedonians come with me and find you not ready, shame would come upon me (not to speak of you) in respect to this confidence. So I have thought that I must ask these brothers to visit you beforehand, and get your promised contribution ready in advance. I want it to be given of your bounty, not extorted from your covetousness.

religious Testimony » Encouraged examples of » Spiritual utterance given to aid in

Acts 2:4

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

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Colossians 4:3

Keep on praying for me, too, that God may open for me a door of utterance to speak the secret truth of Christ, for which I am a prisoner.

2 Corinthians 8:7

Now then, as you excel in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and all zeal and in your love to me, see to it that you excel in this grace also.

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