‘For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.'

For, he points out, all that he has described as being what he and his fellow-workers are going through is for the benefit of the Corinthian Christians. It will result in God's unmerited favour and active compassion being multiplied ‘through the many', resulting in thanksgiving that abounds to the glory of God. ‘Through the many' may simply mean in them, or may have the added meaning that that grace will then reach out through them. Either way God will be glorified.

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