2 Corinthians 9:4

lest, possibly, should the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) might be made ashamed by this same confident boasting.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

In Context

3But I have sent the brethren, that our boasting of you in this respect may not be in vain; that you may be ready, as I said:

5Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.

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Cross References

Romans 15:26For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints who are in Jerusalem:

2 Corinthians 8:24Therefore, give to them, in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our boasting of you.

2 Corinthians 11:17What I say, I say not according to the Lord, but as in folly, in this same confidence of boasting.

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 9:2-6

Charity Urged. ( a. d. 57.) 1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: 2 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. 3 Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready: 4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be… Read the whole commentary →

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