A moment in scripture
2 Corinthians 8:4
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Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
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The surrounding passage
- 2 Corinthians 8:2
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
- 2 Corinthians 8:3
For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
- 2 Corinthians 8:5
And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
- 2 Corinthians 8:6
Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.