Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
Parallel translations
- KJV Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
- BSB In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.
- NKJV Therefore show to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf.
- NASB Therefore, openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.
- NLT So show them your love, and prove to all the churches that our boasting about you is justified.
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Cross-references · 4
- 2 Cor 7:14For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
- 2 Cor 7:4Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
- 2 Cor 8:8I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
- 2 Cor 9:2–4for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for a year past. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.
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