2 Corinthians 9:3-5 But I send the brothers so that our pride in you may not have a fall in this matter, but you may be all ready as I have told them you will;

Goodspeed⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ But I send the brothers so that our pride in you may not have a fall in this matter, but you may be all ready as I have told them you will; ⁴ for if some people from Macedonia come with me, and find that you are not ready, it will humiliate me—to say nothing of you—for having expressed such confidence. ⁵ So I have thought it necessary to ask these brothers to go on to you ahead of me, to arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so as to have it ready, like an expression of your good will, not of your avarice.