²⁴ So give proof before the churches of your love and of ^(A)our boasting about you to these men.

¹⁴ For ^(A)whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you ^(B)was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.

⁴ I am acting with ^(A)great boldness toward you; ^(B)I have great pride in you; ^(C)I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.

² for I know your readiness, ^(A)of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready ^(B)since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. ³ But ^(C)I am sending^[a] the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, ^(D)as I said you would be. ⁴ Otherwise, if some Macedonians ^(E)come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident.

^8 (A)I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.