- 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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- 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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