2 Corinthians 9:3
1 Now about the service to the saints, there is no need for me to write to you.
2 For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were prepared to give. And your zeal has stirred most of them to do likewise.
But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.
4 Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.
5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you beforehand and make arrangements for the bountiful gift you had promised. This way, your gift will be prepared generously and not begrudgingly.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.
- KJV
- 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:
- WEB
- But I have sent the brothers so that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
- ASV
- But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:
- DARBY
- But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made void in this respect, in order that, as I have said, ye may be prepared;
- BLB
- But I sent the brothers so that our boasting that [is] on behalf of you⁺ in this matter should not be made void, so that you⁺ may be prepared, as I have been saying—
- ÅB
- Men jeg sender brødrene, for at ikke den ros vi har gitt dere, skal bli til intet i dette stykke, for at dere, som jeg har sagt, må være rede,
- OTB
- Men jeg har sendt brødrene, slik at vår skryt om dere ikke skal bli gjort tom i dette tilfellet, slik at, som jeg sa, dere vil være forberedt;
- B1930
- Men jeg sender brødrene, forat ikke den ros vi har gitt eder, skal bli til intet i dette stykke, forat I, som jeg har sagt, må være rede,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 8:6
So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.
Read in context2 Corinthians 9:4–5
Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.
Read in context1 Corinthians 16:1–4
Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia:
Read in context2 Corinthians 7:14
Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.
Read in context2 Corinthians 8:17–24
For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.
Read in contextTitus 3:1
Remind the believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient and ready for every good work,
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