2 Corinthians 8:11

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.”

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BSBPD

“Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“But now complete the doing also; that as there was the readiness to will, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and now also finish doing <FI>it<Fi> , that even as <FI>there is<Fi> the readiness of the will, so also the finishing, out of that which ye have,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Corinthians 8:11 — 1 related verse from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:2For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.

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