Text -- 2 Corinthians 9:1-3 (NET)

Preparing the Gift

9:1 For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints, 9:2 because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them. 9:3 But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Co 9:1

¹ tn Or “it is superfluous.”

² tn Or “this ministry,” “this contribution.”

NET Notes: 2Co 9:2

¹ tn The words “to help” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

² tn Grk “concerning which I keep boasting to the Macedonians about you.” A new sentence was started here and the translation was simplified by removing the relative clause and repeating the antecedent “this eagerness of yours.”

³ tn The words “to give” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

⁴ tn The words “to participate” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

⁵ sn Most of them is a reference to the Macedonians (cf. v. 4).

NET Notes: 2Co 9:3

¹ tn This verb has been translated as an epistolary aorist.

² tn That is, ready with the collection for the saints.