2 Corinthians 8:7

as ye abound Cf. 1 Corinthians 1:5.

in all diligence See note on ch. 2 Corinthians 7:11.

your love to us Some copies read our love to you.

this grace also The word here, as in the last verse, seems to bear more the signification known to us in the phrase -Christian graces" than in most places in which it occurs. The passage should perhaps run see that ye also abound (literally exceed, see note on ch. 2 Corinthians 7:4) in this grace, i.e. act of favour or kindness (see last verse). We may observe that faith and utterance and the like were of little avail without love. See 1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 8:13; 2 Peter 1:5-7.