- For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints;
- for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, namely, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.
- But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;
- otherwise if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we--not to speak of you--will be put to shame by this confidence.
- So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a bountiful gift and not affected by covetousness.
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- 論到供給聖徒的事、我不必寫信給你們.
- 因為我知道你們樂意的心、常對馬其頓人誇獎你們、說亞該亞人豫備好了、已經有一年了.並且你們的熱心激動了許多人。
- 但我打發那幾位弟兄去、要叫你們照我的話豫備妥當.免得我們在這事上誇獎你們的話落了空。
- 萬一有馬其頓人與我們同去、見你們沒有豫備、就叫我們所確信的、反成了羞愧.你們的羞愧、更不用說了。
- 因此、我想不得不求那幾位弟兄、先到你們那裡去、把從前所應許的捐貲、豫備妥當、就顯出你們所捐的、是出於樂意、不是出於勉強.
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