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For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

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for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.

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But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:

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lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

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I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.