behalf might become manifest to yourselves in the sight of God.
007:013 For this reason we feel comforted; and--in addition to this
our comfort--we have been filled with all the deeper joy
at Titus's joy, because his spirit has been set at rest
by you all.
007:014 For however I may have boasted to him about you, I have no
reason to feel ashamed; but as we have in all respects spoken
the truth to you, so also our boasting to Titus about you
has turned out to be the truth.
007:015 And his strong and tender affection is all the more drawn
out towards you when he recalls to mind the obedience which
all of you manifested by the timidity and nervous anxiety
with which you welcomed him.
007:016 I rejoice that I have absolute confidence in you.
008:001 But we desire to let you know, brethren, of the grace of God
which has been bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia;
008:002 how, while passing through great trouble, their boundless
joy even amid their deep poverty has overflowed to increase
their generous liberality.
008:003 For I can testify that to the utmost of their power,
and even beyond their power, they have of their own free
will given help.
008:004 With earnest entreaty they begged from us the favour of
being allowed to share in the service now being rendered
to God's people.
008:005 They not only did this, as we had expected, but first of all in
obedience to God's will they gave their own selves to the Lord
and to us.
008:006 This led us to urge Titus that, as he had previously been
the one who commenced the work, so he should now go and complete