3Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
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Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. …
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we(that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)In these verses the apostle speaks very respectfully to the Corinthians, and with great skill; and, while he seems to excuse his urging them so earnestly to charity, still presses them thereto, and shows how much his heart was set upon this matter. I. He tells them it was needless to press them with further arguments to afford relief to their poor brethren (2 Cor. 9:1), being satisfied he had said…
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