³ 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) 4} 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. ⁵ 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)