2 Corinthians 9:3

Contextual Overview

¹ I really do not need to write you about this help for God's people. ¹ For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints, ¹ I do not need to write to you about helping those who belong to Christ. ¹ Now it is not necessary for me to write you about the ministry to the saints, ¹ For, indeed, concerning the ministry which is for the saints, it is, superfluous for me, to be writing to you; ¹ For concerning the ministry that is done towards the saints, it is superfluous for me to write unto you. ¹ Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the offering for the saints, ¹ Of the ministrynge to ye saynctes it is but superfluous for me to write vnto you: ¹ Now concerning the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you; ¹ I really don't need to write to you about this ministry of giving for the believers in Jerusalem.

Bible Verse Review
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have: 2 Corinthians 9:4, 2 Corinthians 7:14, 2 Corinthians 8:6, 2 Corinthians 8:17-24

ye may: 2 Corinthians 9:5, 1 Corinthians 16:1-4, Titus 3:1

Reciprocal: Proverbs 3:28 - General 1 Corinthians 16:2 - that 2 Corinthians 12:21 - my God

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children; grow in number and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Genesis 1:28">[fn]

Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
So God blessed Noah and his sons, - and said to them Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth;

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noe and his sons. And he said to them: Increase, and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, "Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
God made good come to Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Have many children, and cover the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, על הדא צבותא, "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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yet have I sent the brethren - The brethren referred to in 2 Corinthians 8:18, 2 Corinthians 8:22-23.

Lest our boasting of you - That you were disposed to contribute, and that you were already prepared, and that the contribution was ready.

Should be in vain - Lest anything should have occurred to prevent the collection. I have sent them that they may facilitate it, and that it may be secure and certain.

In this behalf - In this respect. That is, lest our boasting of you, in regard to your readiness to contribute to relieve the needs of others, should be found to have been ill-grounded.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Corinthians 9:3. Yet have I sent the brethren — Titus and his companions, mentioned in the preceding chapter.

That, as I said, ye may be ready — And he wished them to be ready, that they might preserve the good character he had given them: this was for their honour; and if they did not take care to do so, he might be reputed a liar; and thus both they and himself be ashamed before the Macedonians, should any of them at this time accompany him to Corinth.