New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Corinthians 8:7-11

7But just as you 1abound 2in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the 3love we inspired in you, see that you 4abound in this gracious work also.

8I 5am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.

9For you know 6the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that 7though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

10I 8give my opinion in this matter, for this is to your advantage, who were the first to begin 9a year ago not only to do this, but also to desire to do it.

11But now finish 10doing it also, so that just as there was the 11readiness to desire it, so there may be also the completion of it by your ability.

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 8:7 2 Cor 9:8 ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 8:7 Rom 15:14; 1 Cor 1:5; 12:8 ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 8:7 Lit love from us in you; one early ms reads your love for us ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 8:7 2 Cor 9:8 ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 8:8 1 Cor 7:6 ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 8:9 2 Cor 13:14 ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 8:9 Matt 20:28; 2 Cor 6:10; Phil 2:6f ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 8:10 1 Cor 7:25, 40 ↩
9. 2 Corinthians 8:10 1 Cor 16:2f; 2 Cor 9:2 ↩
10. 2 Corinthians 8:11 Lit the doing ↩
11. 2 Corinthians 8:11 2 Cor 8:12, 19; 9:2 ↩

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