New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Corinthians 8:6-10

6So we 1urged 2Titus that as he had previously 3made a beginning, so he would also complete in you 4this gracious work as well.

7But just as you 5abound 6in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the 7love we inspired in you, see that you 8abound in this gracious work also. 8I 9am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also. 9For you know 10the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that 11though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. 10I 12give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin 13a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 8:6 2 Cor 8:17; 12:18 ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 8:6 2 Cor 2:13; 8:16, 23 ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 8:6 2 Cor 8:10 ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 8:6 Acts 24:17; Rom 15:25f ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 8:7 2 Cor 9:8 ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 8:7 Rom 15:14; 1 Cor 1:5; 12:8 ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 8:7 Lit love from us in you; one early ms reads your love for us ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 8:7 2 Cor 9:8 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 8:8 1 Cor 7:6 ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 8:9 2 Cor 13:14 ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 8:9 Matt 20:28; 2 Cor 6:10; Phil 2:6f ↩
12. 2 Corinthians 8:10 1 Cor 7:25, 40 ↩
13. 2 Corinthians 8:10 1 Cor 16:2f; 2 Cor 9:2 ↩

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