2 Corinthians 9:4

lest, should the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be put to shame in respect to this confidence.

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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 sent the brethren, that our boasting of you should not prove unfounded in this respect; that, as I said, ye may be prepared;

5I thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make up beforehand your bounty, which was already announced, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not of covetousness.

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Cross References

Romans 15:26For Macedonia and Achaia have thought it good to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

2 Corinthians 8:24Display to them, therefore, before the churches, the proof of your love, and of what we have boasted on your behalf.

2 Corinthians 11:17What I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as it were in folly, in this 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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