2 Corinthians 8:8

James Moffatt - New Testament

I am not issuing any orders, only using the zeal of others to prove how sterling your own love is.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:6

But what I have just said is by way of concession, not command.

Hebrews 10:24

and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good deeds —

2 Corinthians 9:7

Everyone is to give what he has made up his mind to give; there is to be no grudging or compulsion about it, for God loves the giver who gives cheerfully.

2 Corinthians 6:6

with innocence, insight, patience, kindness, the holy Spirit, unaffected love,

1 Peter 1:22

Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.

Ephesians 6:24

Grace be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 4:15

we are to hold by the truth, and by our love to grow up wholly into Him. For He, Christ, is the head, and under him,

2 Corinthians 9:2

I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.

2 Corinthians 8:24

So let them have proof of how you can love, and of my reasons for being proud of you; it will be a proof read by the churches.

2 Corinthians 8:10

But I will tell you what I think about it; it is to your interest to go on with this enterprise, for you started it last year, you were the first not merely to do anything but to want to do anything.

1 Corinthians 7:25

I have no orders from the Lord for unmarried women, but I will give you the opinion of one whom you can trust, after all the Lord's mercy to him.

1 Corinthians 7:12

To other people I would say (not the Lord): — if any brother has a wife who is not a believer, and if she consents to live with him, he must not put her away;

Romans 12:9

Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.