2 Corinthians 9:3

Contextual Overview

¹There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the saints. ¹ There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the Lord's people. ¹ For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints; ¹For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints; ¹I don't need to keep going on and on about lending a hand to the cowboys in Jerusalem. ¹ But there is no need for me to say anything in my letter about the giving to the saints: ¹ For concerning the ministration which [is] for the saints, it is superfluous my writing to you. ¹ Now concerning the ministry to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you. ¹ It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints, ¹ For concerning the ministring to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you.

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, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number 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
And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.

Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth with your people.

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 blisside Noe and hise sones, and seide to hem, Encreesse ye, and be ye multiplied, and fille ye the erthe;

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah, and his sonnes, and said vnto them, Bee fruitfull and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish 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.