2 Corinthians 9:2-3

9:2 because I know your eagerness to help. ¹  I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, ²  that Achaia has been ready to give ³  since last year, and your zeal to participate ⁴  has stirred up most of them. ⁵  9:3 But I am sending ⁶  these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready ⁷  just as I kept telling them.

[9:2]  ¹ tn The words “to help” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[9:2]  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.”

[9:2]  ³ tn The words “to give” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.

[9:2]  ⁴ tn The words “to participate” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[9:2]  ⁵ sn Most of them is a reference to the Macedonians (cf. v. 4).

[9:3]  ⁶ tn This verb has been translated as an epistolary aorist.

[9:3]  ⁷ tn That is, ready with the collection for the saints.