2 Corinthians 9:3

Nevertheless I am sending the brothers in order that my boast about you may not prove vain in this instance; so that, as I kept saying, you may be prepared.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

2for I know how ready you are, and am always boasting about you to the Macedonians, telling them that Greece has been ready for a year past; and your zeal has been a spur to the majority of them.

4For if any Macedonians come with me and find you not ready, shame would come upon me (not to speak of you) in respect to this confidence.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 16:1Now concerning the offering for the saints, you also are to do as I directed the church of Galatia.

2 Corinthians 8:6With the result that I have been begging Titus that, as he had been the one to begin the work with you, so he should complete among you this grace also.

2 Corinthians 9:4For if any Macedonians come with me and find you not ready, shame would come upon me (not to speak of you) in respect to this confidence.

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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