2 Corinthians 8:6

WEB

⁶So we urged Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.

KJV

⁶Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

BSB

⁶So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.

FBV

⁶So we have encouraged Titus—since it was he who started this work with you—to return and complete this gracious ministry of yours.

Extra References

2 Corinthians 12:18

¹⁸I exhorted Titus, and I sent the brother with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Didn’t we walk in the same spirit? Didn’t we walk in the same steps?

2 Corinthians 8:16-17

¹⁶But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus. ¹⁷For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

2 Corinthians 8:19

¹⁹Not only so, but he was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.

2 Corinthians 8:4

⁴begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

1 Peter 4:10

¹⁰As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Philippians 4:18

¹⁸But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

⁵I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.