2Cor 8:8, 1Jo 3:16-18 | ESV | STEP | I say this not as a command , but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.

2 Corinthians 8:8

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

1 John 3:16-18

16 By this we know love, that ^bhe laid down his life for us, and ^cwe ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But ^dif anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet ^ecloses his heart against him, ^fhow does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not ^glove in word or talk but in deed and ^hin truth.