Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
Parallel translations
- WEB So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
- BSB So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.
- NKJV So we urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also complete this grace in you as well.
- NASB So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.
- NLT So we have urged Titus, who encouraged your giving in the first place, to return to you and encourage you to finish this ministry of giving.
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Paul urged Titus to help the Corinthians complete the gracious giving he had already begun among them. He wanted their generosity brought to completion.
Overview
Encouraged by the Macedonian example, Paul asks Titus to return and finish organizing the collection in Corinth that he had earlier started. He calls this work of giving a 'grace,' tying it to God's grace at work. Good intentions are to be carried through to completion.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Cor 12:18I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
- 2 Cor 8:19And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:
- 2 Cor 8:16–17But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
- 2 Cor 8:4Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
- 1 Pet 4:10As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
- Phil 4:18But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
- 2 Cor 9:5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
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