I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

我说这话，不是吩咐你们，乃是藉着别人的热心试验你们爱心的实在。

我说这话，并不是命令你们，而是藉着别人的热忱来考验你们爱心的真诚。

我说这话，并不是命令你们，而是藉着别人的热忱来考验你们爱心的真诚。

我说这话并非命令你们，而是借着别人的热心考验一下你们爱心的真伪。

我这样说，不是吩咐你们，而是藉着别人的热心来考验你们的爱心是否真实。

我说这话不是出于命令，而是要藉着别人的殷勤来考验你们爱的真诚，

我說這話，不是吩咐你們，乃是藉着別人的熱心試驗你們愛心的實在。

我說這話，並不是命令你們，而是藉着別人的熱忱來考驗你們愛心的真誠。

我說這話，並不是命令你們，而是藉着別人的熱忱來考驗你們愛心的真誠。

我說這話並非命令你們，而是藉著別人的熱心考驗一下你們愛心的真偽。

我這樣說，不是吩咐你們，而是藉著別人的熱心來考驗你們的愛心是否真實。

我這不是當命令說的，我乃是要藉着別人的熱切來試驗你們的愛心是不是真的罷了。

我說這話不是出於命令，而是要藉著別人的殷勤來考驗你們愛的真誠，

我言此、非命爾、乃藉他人之懃懇、驗爾仁愛之實、

吾非以此命爾、乃因他人殷勤、欲試爾仁愛之實、

我言此、非命爾、乃因他人之殷勤、欲試爾仁愛之實、

吾作此言、非命令也、乃欲藉他人之熱情、一測爾等愛德之深淺耳。

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.

I am not commanding you to do it. But I want to test you. I want to find out if you really love God. I want to compare your love with that of others.

I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.

I am not commanding you to do this. But I am testing how genuine your love is by comparing it with the eagerness of the other churches.

I am not saying this as a command. Rather, by means of the diligence of others, I am testing the genuineness of your love.

I am not saying this as a command, but as proving, through the earnestness of others, the sincerity of your love as well.

I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

I am not saying this as a command. Rather, by means of the diligence of others, I am testing the genuineness of your love.

I am not saying this as a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love by comparison with the eagerness of others.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

But I speak this by permission,[ and] not of commandment.

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart,[ so let him give]; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

What[ doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be[ ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what[ doth it] profit?

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.For to[ their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond[ their] power[ they were] willing of themselves;

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head,[ even] Christ:

Now if the fall of them[ be] the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:If by any means I may provoke to emulation[ them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them.

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee[ as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love,[ but] their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

Grace[ be] with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.<[ To[ the] Ephesians written from Rome, by Tychicus.]>

[ Let] love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

And herein I give[ my] advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren,[ see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.