- There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the saints.
- For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action.
- But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.
- For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we--not to say anything about you--would be ashamed of having been so confident.
- So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.
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- 论到供给圣徒的事,我不必写信给你们。
- 因为我知道你们乐意的心,常对马其顿人夸奖你们,说亚该亚人豫备好了,已经有一年了。并且你们的热心激动了许多人。
- 但我打发那几位弟兄去,要叫你们照我的话豫备妥当。免得我们在这事上夸奖你们的话落了空。
- 万一有马其顿人与我同去,见你们没有豫备,就叫我们所确信的,反成了羞愧。你们羞愧,更不用说了。
- 因此我想不得不求那几位弟兄,先到你们那里去,把从前所应许的捐赀,豫备妥当,就显出你们所捐的,是出于乐意,不是出于勉强。
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