Footnotes

1. 2 Corinthians 9:1 tn Or “it is superfluous.”
2. 2 Corinthians 9:1 tn Or “this ministry,” “this contribution.”
3. 2 Corinthians 9:2 tn The words “to help” are not in the Greek text but are implied.
4. 2 Corinthians 9:2 tn Grk “concerning which I keep boasting to the Macedonians about you.” A new sentence was started here and the translation was simplified by removing the relative clause and repeating the antecedent “this eagerness of yours.”
5. 2 Corinthians 9:2 tn The words “to give” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.
6. 2 Corinthians 9:2 tn The words “to participate” are not in the Greek text but are implied.
7. 2 Corinthians 9:2 sn Most of them is a reference to the Macedonians (cf. v. 4).
8. 2 Corinthians 9:3 tn This verb has been translated as an epistolary aorist.
9. 2 Corinthians 9:3 tn That is, ready with the collection for the saints.
10. 2 Corinthians 9:4 tn Or “be disgraced”; Grk “be put to shame.”
11. 2 Corinthians 9:4 tn Grk “by this confidence”; the words “we had in you” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied as a necessary clarification for the English reader.
12. 2 Corinthians 9:5 tn Grk “the blessing.”
13. 2 Corinthians 9:5 tn Grk “a blessing.”
14. 2 Corinthians 9:5 tn Grk “as a covetousness”; that is, a gift given grudgingly or under compulsion.