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We would be embarrassed—not to mention your own embarrassment—if some Macedonian believers came with me and found that you weren’t ready after all I had told them!
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If some Macedonians and I happened to drop in on you and found you weren't prepared, we'd all be pretty red-faced - you and us - for acting so sure of ourselves.
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For if any Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we, not to mention you, would be embarrassed in that situation.
2 Corinthians 9:4 In-Context
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For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action.
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But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.
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For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to say anything about you—would be ashamed of having been so confident.
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So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.
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Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.