2 Corinthians 8:24

Therefore show ¹  them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you. ² 

Therefore show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our pride in you, so that the churches can see it.

Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.

So show them your love, and prove to all the churches that our boasting about you is justified.

Show them what you're made of, the love I've been talking up in the churches. Let them see it for themselves!

Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.

Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.

Therefore show to them, and before the churches the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf.

Therefore show ¹  them openly before the churches the proof of your love and of our pride in you. ² 

¹ tc The sense of this translation is attested by the fact that most of the later mss, along with several early and important ones (א C D² Ψ 0225 0243 1739 1881 Ï lat), have the imperative verb ἐνδείξασθε (ejndeixasqe) in place of the participle ἐνδεικνύμενοι (endeiknumenoi), which is found in B D* F G 33 pc. Since an imperatival participle is more Hebraic in style, many scribes would not have understood the idiom as easily and would have been likely to change the participle to an imperative (so TCGNT 513-14). But there is no good reason why scribes would change the imperative into a participle. Thus, ἐνδεικνύμενοι is almost surely the wording of the original text.

tn In the Greek text ἐνδεικνύμενοι (endeiknumenoi) is a present participle which is translated as an imperative verb (see BDF §468; ExSyn 650-52).

² tn Or “our boasting about you.”