Catholic Public Domain Version
"I am speaking, not commanding. But through the solicitude of others, I approve of the good character of your charity. "
— 2 Corinthians 8:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.”
“I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love. ”
“I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.”
“I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.”
“I speak not as commanding: but by the carefulness of others, approving also the good disposition of your charity.”
“I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.”
“I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.”
And this is beyond what we had hoped, since they gave themselves, first of all to the Lord, and then also to us, through the will of God,
so much so that we petitioned Titus, that in the same manner as he had begun, he would also complete in you this same grace.
But, just as in all things you abound in faith and in word and in knowledge and in all solicitude, and even more so in your charity toward us, so also may you abound in this grace.
I am speaking, not commanding. But through the solicitude of others, I approve of the good character of your charity.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that through his poverty, you might become rich.
And about this, I give my counsel. For this is useful to those of you who, only a year earlier, had just begun to act, or even to be willing to act.
So, truly now, accomplish this in deed, so that, in the same manner as your willing mind is prompted, you may also act, out of that which you have.