For I know your eagerness, and I brag about you to the Macedonians:[a](A) “Achaia[b](B) has been prepared since last year,” and your zeal(C) has stirred up most of them.(D) But I sent the brothers so our boasting about you in the matter would not prove empty, and so you would be prepared just as I said. For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to mention you, would be embarrassed in that situation.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:2 Macedonia was a Roman province in the northern area of modern Greece.
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:2 Achaia was the Roman province, south of Macedonia, where Corinth was located.
  3. 2 Corinthians 9:4 Or in this confidence

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