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Greek Lessons
- The Law That Sets Free: A Grammar of Liberation in Romans 8:2
- Moved to Speak: Temporal Setting and Genitive Absolute in Mark 8:1
- The Hour Had Not Yet Come: Divine Timing and Aorist Action in John 7:30
- Because of This Word: Perfect Tense and Power at a Distance
- The Greatest and the Least: Superlative Contrast and Kingdom Inversion in Luke 7:28
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Tag Archives: 2 Corinthians 8:7
Abounding in Grace: Subjunctive Purpose and Spiritual Fullness in 2 Corinthians 8:7
Ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐν παντὶ περισσεύετε, πίστει καὶ λόγῳ καὶ γνώσει καὶ πάσῃ σπουδῇ καὶ τῇ ἐξ ὑμῶν ἐν ἡμῖν ἀγάπῃ, ἵνα καὶ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ χάριτι περισσεύητε. (2 Corinthians 8:7)
Overflowing in All Things: Context and Contrast
In 2 Corinthians 8, Paul exhorts the Corinthians to follow through in generosity toward the Jerusalem believers. He frames the appeal not as a command but as an invitation to participate in grace. Verse 7 uses grammatical symmetry and a subjunctive purpose clause to extend that invitation: as they abound in many spiritual virtues, so they should also abound in this particular χάρις — the grace of giving.… Learn Koine Greek