2 Corinthians 8:7

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

2 Corinthians 8:7 In-Context

5 and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
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.
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.
8 I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.
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.

Cross References 3

  • 1. 2 Corinthians 9:8
  • 2. Romans 15:14; 1 Corinthians 1:5; 1 Corinthians 12:8
  • 3. 2 Corinthians 9:8

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit "love from us in you;" one early ms reads "your love for us"
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