2 Corinthians 9:3
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.
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 ashamed in this same confident boasting.
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
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
Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
Read in context2 Corinthians 9:4–5
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.
Read in context1 Corinthians 16:1–4
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
Read in context2 Corinthians 7:14
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
Read in context2 Corinthians 8:17–24
For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.
Read in contextTitus 3:1
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
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