2 Corinthians 9:2
for I know the goodness of your mind; and therefore I gloried of you before the Macedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath excited many.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
1And concerning the ministration by the saints, it would be superfluous for me to write to you:
Cross References
Acts 18:12And when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews assembled together against Paul; and they brought him before the judgment-seat,
2 Corinthians 1:1PAUL a legate of Jesus the Messiah, by the good pleasure of God; and Timothy a brother; to the church of God that is at Corinth, and to all the saints that are in all Achaia.
2 Corinthians 8:8I do not actually command you, but by the promptitude of your fellow disciples, I would test the sincerity of your love.
2 Corinthians 8:19inasmuch as he likewise had been expressly chosen by the churches, to accompany me with this beneficence which is ministered by us to the glory of God and to our cordiality.
1 Thessalonians 1:7And ye were a pattern for all the believers who are in Macedonia and in Achaia.
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 →