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2 Corinthians 9:3-5

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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 
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[9:3]  1 tn This verb has been translated as an epistolary aorist.

[9:3]  2 tn That is, ready with the collection for the saints.

[9:4]  3 tn Or “be disgraced”; Grk “be put to shame.”

[9:4]  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.

[9:5]  5 tn Grk “the blessing.”

[9:5]  6 tn Grk “a blessing.”

[9:5]  7 tn Grk “as a covetousness”; that is, a gift given grudgingly or under compulsion.



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