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2 Corinthians 7
¹³ For this reason we have been comforted. And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
¹⁴ For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.
¹⁵ His affection abounds all the more toward you, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.
¹⁶ I rejoice that in everything I have confidence in you.
2 Corinthians 8
¹ Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,
² that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.
³ For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord,
⁴ begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints,
⁵ and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.
⁶ So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.
⁷ But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also.