So show them your love, and prove to all the churches that our boasting about you is justified.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.
- 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.
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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 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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