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2 Corinthians 8:24

Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

KJV

τὴν οὖν ἔνδειξιν τῆς ἀγάπης ὑμῶν καὶ ἡμῶν καυχήσεως ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν εἰς αὐτοὺς ἐνδεικνύμενοι εἰς πρόσωπον τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν.

Greek NT

Ostensionem ergo, quæ est caritatis vestræ, et nostræ gloriæ pro vobis, in illos ostendite in faciem ecclesiarum.

Vulgate

Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

ASV

Wherefore shew ye to them, in the sight of the churches, the evidence of your charity and of our boasting on your behalf.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καύχησις
kauchesis
noun · 11×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
πρόσωπον
prosopon
noun · 77×
ἀγάπη
agape
noun · 116×
ἐκκλησία
ekklesia
noun · 114×
ἐνδείκνυμι
endeiknumi
verb · 11×
ἔνδειξις
endeixis
noun · 4×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
ὑπέρ
uper
preposition · 148×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: ἐνδεικνύμενοι | Treg/NIV: ἐνδεικνύμενοι | WH/RP: ἐνδείξασθε
  • ἐνδεικνύμενοιSBLGNT
  • ἐνδεικνύμενοιTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐνδείξασθεWestcott-Hort, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 7:4 — Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
  • 2Cor 7:14 — For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
  • 2Cor 7:14 — For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
  • 2Cor 8:8 — I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.
  • 2Cor 9:2 — For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
  • Jas 3:13 — Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.