2 Corinthians 9:4

least if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, we should be ashamed (not to say you also) in this confident boasting.

1770 John Worsley NT

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 might not become vain in this respect, but that ye might be ready, as I had said:

5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go first to you, and before our coming to collect your bounty beforementioned, that it may be ready, as of munificence, and not of force.

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Cross References

Romans 15:26For the Macedonians and Achaians have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor saints at Jerusalem.

2 Corinthians 8:24Therefore shew to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and the justness of our boasting concerning you.

2 Corinthians 11:17What I speak I speak not as from the Lord, but as in weakness, 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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