2 Corinthians 9:3-5

9:3 But I am sending ¹  these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready ²  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 ³  (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you. ⁴  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 ⁵  you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift ⁶  and not as something you feel forced to do. ⁷ 

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

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

³ tn Or “be disgraced”; Grk “be put to shame.”

⁴ 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.

⁵ tn Grk “the blessing.”

⁶ tn Grk “a blessing.”

⁷ tn Grk “as a covetousness”; that is, a gift given grudgingly or under compulsion.