24 Show them, therefore--so that the Churches may see it-- the proof of your affection, and the ground for our boasting to them about you.
2 Corinthians 8:24 Cross References - Twentieth_Century
2 Corinthians 7:4
4 I have the utmost confidence in you; I am always boasting about you. I am full of encouragement and, in spite of all our troubles, my heart is overflowing with happiness.
2 Corinthians 7:14
14 Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, you did not put me to shame; but, just as every thing we had said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has also proved to be the truth.
2 Corinthians 8:8
8 I am not laying a command upon you, but I am making use of the earnestness shown by others to test the genuineness of your affection.
2 Corinthians 9:2-4
2 I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.
3 So my reason for sending our Brothers is to prevent what we said about you from proving, in this particular matter, an empty boast, and to enable you to be as well prepared as I have been saying that you are.
4 Otherwise, if any Macedonians were to come with me, and find you unprepared, we--to say nothing of you--should feel ashamed of our present confidence.