2 Corinthians 9:3-5 ▼

3 But I have sent the brothers, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared;

4 lest if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—be put to shame in this certainty of ours.

5 So I regarded it necessary to encourage the brothers that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised blessing, so that the same would be ready as a blessing and not as a begrudging obligation.