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但我差遣那幾位弟兄去,要使你們照我的話預備妥當,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同去,見你們沒有預備好,就使我們所確信的反成了羞愧;你們的羞愧更不用說了。 因此,我想必須鼓勵那幾位弟兄先到你們那裏去,把從前所應許的捐款預備妥當,好顯出你們所捐的是出於樂意,不是出於勉強。

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But I am sending the brothers(A) 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.(B) For if any Macedonians(C) 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(D) 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,(E) not as one grudgingly given.(F)

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(A)Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that, as I said, you may be ready; lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you!) should be ashamed of this [a]confident boasting. Therefore I thought it necessary to [b]exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time, and prepare your generous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised, that it may be ready as a matter of generosity and not as a [c]grudging obligation.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 9:4 NU confidence.
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:5 encourage
  3. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit. covetousness