Now have I sent the brethren, lest our rejoicing over you should be in vain in this behalf, that ye (as I have said) be ready.

Lest if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we may not say, you) should be ashamed in this my [a]constant boasting.

Wherefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to come before unto you, and to finish your benevolence appointed afore, that it might be ready, and come as of benevolence, and not as of [b]niggardliness.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:4 The word which he useth, signifieth such a stayedness and settledness of mind, as cannot be moved with any terror or fear.
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:5 As from covetous men.

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