Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, 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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Quick answer
Paul urges the Corinthians to give visible proof of their love and to vindicate his boasting about them by receiving these messengers well. Reputation now calls for action.
Overview
Paul closes the chapter by exhorting the church to demonstrate before the watching churches that his confidence in them was justified. Their love is shown concretely in how they welcome the delegates and complete the collection. Genuine Christian love proves itself in tangible deeds, not mere words.
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Cross-references · 4
- 2 Cor 7:14For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
- 2 Cor 7:4Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
- 2 Cor 8:8I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
- 2 Cor 9:2–4For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
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