◄ 2 Corinthians 8:20 ►
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Good News Translation
We are being careful not to stir up any complaints about the way we handle this generous gift.

New Revised Standard Version
We intend that no one should blame us about this generous gift that we are administering,

Contemporary English Version
We don't want anyone to find fault with the way we handle your generous gift.

New American Bible
This we desire to avoid, that anyone blame us about this lavish gift administered by us,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us.

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Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us.

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2 Corinthians 11:12 But what I do, that I will do: that I may cut off the occasion from them that desire occasion: that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

Matthew 10:16 Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves.

Romans 14:16 Let not then our good be evil spoken of.

1 Corinthians 16:3 And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem.

Ephesians 5:15 See therefore, brethren, how you walk circumspectly: not as unwise,

1 Thessalonians 5:22 From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.

Context
Titus Commended
…19And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches companion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us, to the glory of the Lord and our determined will: 20Avoiding this, lest any man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us. 21For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also before men.…
Cross References
2 Kings 12:15
And they reckoned not with the men that received the money to distribute it to the workmen, but they bestowed it faithfully.

2 Corinthians 8:19
And not that only: but he was also ordained by the churches companion of our travels, for this grace, which is administered by us, to the glory of the Lord and our determined will:

2 Corinthians 8:21
For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also before men.

2 Corinthians 8:19
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