2 Corintios 9:3

3 Les envío a estos hermanos para estar seguro de que ustedes realmente están listos —como les he estado diciendo a ellos— y que ya tienen todo el dinero reunido. No quiero estar equivocado al jactarme de ustedes.

2 Corintios 9:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 9:3

Yet have I sent the brethren
Titus, and the other two mentioned in the foregoing chapter: one manuscript reads, "we have sent"; and the Ethiopic version, "they have sent", that is, the Macedonians; but the common reading is best. It might be objected, that since the apostle knew the forwardness of their minds, how ready they were a year ago, and had boasted so much of their liberality, that it must be unnecessary to send the brethren to them, to stir them up to this work; which objection is prevented by observing the reason of his sending them:

lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf:
or, "in this part", in this particular thing, (atwbu adh le) , "concerning this business", or affair of beneficence to the poor, as the Syriac version renders it. He had boasted of them with respect to other things besides this; but he was chiefly concerned, knowing the frailty and changeableness of human nature, and how possible it was that their forwardness might abate, and they grow cold and indifferent to such service, lest his glorying of them should be in vain in this particular instance; wherefore he sent the brethren to put them on, that as they had begun they would finish:

that as I said ye may be ready,
That as he had said to the Macedonians, that they were ready in mind, it might appear to be so; or as he had ordered them in his former epistle, they might be actually ready; have their collection ready made, so that there might be no gathering when he came.

2 Corintios 9:3 In-Context

1 Ofrenda para los cristianos de Jerusalén
En realidad, no necesito escribirles acerca del ministerio de ofrendar para los creyentes de Jerusalén.

2 Pues sé lo deseosos que están de ayudar, y me estuve jactando en las iglesias de Macedonia de que ustedes, los de Grecia,
hace un año estuvieron dispuestos a enviar una ofrenda. De hecho, fue su entusiasmo lo que fomentó que muchos de los creyentes macedonios comenzaran a dar.

3 Les envío a estos hermanos para estar seguro de que ustedes realmente están listos —como les he estado diciendo a ellos— y que ya tienen todo el dinero reunido. No quiero estar equivocado al jactarme de ustedes.

4 Sería vergonzoso para nosotros —ni hablar de la vergüenza que significaría para ustedes— si algunos creyentes macedonios llegaran conmigo y encontraran que ustedes no están preparados ¡después de todo lo que les hablé de ustedes!

5 Así que pensé que debería enviarles a estos hermanos primero, a fin de estar seguro de que tienen lista la ofrenda que prometieron; pero quiero que sea una ofrenda voluntaria, no una ofrenda dada de mala gana.