New Revised Standard Version
I do not say this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love against the earnestness of others.

Contemporary English Version
I am not ordering you to do this. I am simply testing how real your love is by comparing it with the concern that others have shown.

New American Bible
I say this not by way of command, but to test the genuineness of your love by your concern for others.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I speak not as commanding: but by the carefulness of others, approving also the good disposition of your charity.

I speak not as commanding: but by the carefulness of others, approving also the good disposition of your charity.

speak.

2 Corinthians 8:10 And herein I give my advice: for this is profitable for you who have begun not only to do but also to be willing, a year ago.

2 Corinthians 9:7 Every one as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

1 Corinthians 7:6,12,25 But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. . . .

by occasion.

2 Corinthians 8:1-3 Now we make known unto you, brethren, the grace of God that hath been given in the churches of Macedonia. . . .

2 Corinthians 9:2 For I know your forward mind: for which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that Achaia also is ready from the year past. And your emulation hath provoked very many.

Romans 11:12-14 Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the diminution of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more the fulness of them? . . .

Hebrews 10:24 And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:

prove.

2 Corinthians 8:24 Wherefore shew ye to them, in the sight of the churches, the evidence of your charity and of our boasting on your behalf.

2 Corinthians 6:6 In chastity, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in sweetness, in the Holy Ghost, in charity unfeigned,

Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and most sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

Ephesians 4:15 But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ:

*marg:

Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruption. Amen.

James 2:14-16 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him? . . .

1 Peter 1:22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

1 John 3:17-19 He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? . . .