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2 Corinthians 9:3 KJV
2 Corinthians · chapter 9 · verse 3 · King James Version
Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:2 Corinthians 9:3 · King James Version
2 Corinthians 9:3 in context
1For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
2For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
3Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
4Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
Key words (Strong's)
- brethrenadelphosa brother, whether born of the same two parents or only of the same father or mother…G80 →
- boastingkauchēmathat of which one glories or can glory, matter or ground of glorying, a glorying or…G2745 →
- behalfmerosa part, a part due or assigned to one, lot, destiny, one of the constituent parts of a…G3313 →
- readyparaskeuazōto make one's self ready, to prepare one's self, have prepared one's self, to be prepared…G3903 →
- sentpempōto send, to bid a thing to be carried to one, to send a thing into anotherG3992 →
- lesthina mēlest, that... notG3363 →
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