2 Corinthians 9:3-5 and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, you may be ready,

RYLT⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ and I sent the brethren, that our boasting on your behalf may not be made vain in this respect; that, according as I said, you may be ready, ⁴ lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we -- we may be put to shame (that we say not -- you) in this same confidence of boasting. ⁵ Necessary, therefore, I thought it to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.