2 Corinthians 9:4

Lest haply if the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say, you) may be confounded in this confidence of boasting. I

Thomas Haweis 1795 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 glorying in you might not be vain in this matter; that as I have said, ye may be prepared.

5have thought it necessary therefore to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and prepare before your promised bounty, that it may be ready as a matter of bounty, and not as extorted of covetousness.

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Cross References

Romans 15:26For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a certain contribution for the poor of the saints that are at Jerusalem.

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

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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