Devine Scripture

2 Corinthians 8:6

2 Corinthians chapter 8 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

Context

v.5and this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

v.6This passage

v.7But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Philippians 4:18

    But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

  • 2 Corinthians 8:16

    But thanks be to God, who putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

  • 1 Peter 4:10

    according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

  • 2 Corinthians 8:19

    and not only so, but who was also appointed by the churches to travel with us in the matter of this grace, which is ministered by us to the glory of the Lord, and to show our readiness:

  • 2 Corinthians 9:5

    I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

  • 2 Corinthians 8:4

    beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints: