New American Standard Bible 1995

2 Corinthians 9:4-5

4otherwise if any 1Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we--not to speak of you--will be put to shame by this confidence. 5So I thought it necessary to urge the 2brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised 3 4bountiful gift, so that the same would be ready as a 5 6bountiful gift and not 7 8affected by covetousness.

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Notes

1. 2 Corinthians 9:4 Rom 15:26 ↩
2. 2 Corinthians 9:5 2 Cor 9:3 ↩
3. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit blessing ↩
4. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Gen 33:11; Judg 1:15; 2 Cor 9:6 ↩
5. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit blessing ↩
6. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Phil 4:17 ↩
7. 2 Corinthians 9:5 Lit as covetousness ↩
8. 2 Corinthians 9:5 2 Cor 12:17f ↩

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