² For I know your eagerness to help,^(A) and I have been boasting^(B) about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year^(C) you in Achaia^(D) were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. ³ But I am sending the brothers^(E) in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.^{(F) 4} For if any Macedonians^(G) come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say anything about you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.