2 Corinthians 8:11

8:11 to finish what you started, ¹  so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, ²  you can also complete it ³  according to your means. ⁴ 

2 Corinthians 9:3-5

9:3 But I am sending ⁵  these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready ⁶  just as I kept telling them. 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 ⁷  (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you. ⁸  9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution ⁹  you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift ¹⁰  and not as something you feel forced to do. ¹¹ 

¹ tn Grk “and now also complete the doing.”

² tn Grk “just as the eagerness to want [it].”

³ tn Grk “so also it might be completed.” The passive construction was converted to an active one in the translation in keeping with contemporary English style.

⁴ tn Grk “completed from what you have.”

⁵ tn This verb has been translated as an epistolary aorist.

⁶ tn That is, ready with the collection for the saints.

⁷ tn Or “be disgraced”; Grk “be put to shame.”

⁸ 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.

⁹ tn Grk “the blessing.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “a blessing.”

¹¹ tn Grk “as a covetousness”; that is, a gift given grudgingly or under compulsion.