2 Cor 8:4 begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints,
2 Cor 8:5 and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
2 Cor 8:6 So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.
2 Cor 8:7 ¶ But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.
2 Cor 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
2 Cor 8:10 I give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.
2 Cor 8:11 But now finish doing it also, so that just as there was the readiness to desire it, so theremay be also the completion of it by your ability.
2 Cor 8:12 For if the readiness is present, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
2 Cor 8:14 at this present time your abundance being asupply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality;
2 Cor 8:17 For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord.
2 Cor 8:18 We have sent along with him the brother whose fame in the things of the gospel has spread through all the churches;
2 Cor 8:19 and not only this, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work, which is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our readiness,
2 Cor 8:20 taking precaution so that no one will discredit us in our administration of this generous gift;
2 Cor 8:21 for we have regard for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
2 Cor 8:22 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things, but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.
2 Cor 8:23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.
2 Cor 8:24 Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.
2 Cor 9:2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, namely, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
2 Cor 9:3 But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;
2 Cor 9:5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected by covetousness.