2 Corinthians 7:14

7:14 For if I have boasted to him about anything concerning you, I have not been embarrassed by you, ¹  but just as everything we said to you was true, ²  so our boasting to Titus about you ³  has proved true as well.

2 Corinthians 9:2

9:2 because I know your eagerness to help. ⁴  I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, ⁵  that Achaia has been ready to give ⁶  since last year, and your zeal to participate ⁷  has stirred up most of them. ⁸ 

2 Corinthians 9:4

9:4 For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated ⁹  (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you. ¹⁰ 

2 Corinthians 9:1

Preparing the Gift

9:1 For it is not necessary ¹¹  for me to write you about this service ¹²  to the saints,

2 Corinthians 2:1

2:1 So ¹³  I made up my own mind ¹⁴  not to pay you another painful visit. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Grk “I have not been put to shame”; the words “by you” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

² tn Grk “just as we spoke everything to you in truth.”

³ tn The words “about you” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

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

⁵ 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.”

⁶ tn The words “to give” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

⁷ tn The words “to participate” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

⁸ sn Most of them is a reference to the Macedonians (cf. v. 4).

⁹ tn Or “be disgraced”; Grk “be put to shame.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “by this confidence”; the words “we had in you” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied as a necessary clarification for the English reader.

¹¹ tn Or “it is superfluous.”

¹² tn Or “this ministry,” “this contribution.”

¹³ tc Although usually δέ (de, “now”; found in א A C D¹ F G Ψ 0285 Ï lat) should take precedent over γάρ (gar) in textually disputed places in the corpus Paulinum, the credentials for γάρ here are not easily dismissed (Ì⁴⁶ B 0223 0243 33 1739 1881 al); here it is the preferred reading, albeit slightly.

¹⁴ tn Or “I decided this for myself.”

¹⁵ tn Grk “not to come to you again in sorrow.”