^9:2because I know your eagerness to help.³ I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours,⁴ that Achaia has been ready to give⁵ since last year, and your zeal to participate⁶ has stirred up most of them.⁷^9:3But I am sending⁸ these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready⁹ just as I kept telling them.

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Footnotes

3 The words “to help” are not in the Greek text but are implied.
4 Grk “concerning which I keep boasting to the Macedonians about you.” A new sentence was started here and the translation was simplified by removing the relative clause and repeating the antecedent “this eagerness of yours.”
5 The words “to give” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.
6 The words “to participate” are not in the Greek text but are implied.
7 Most of them is a reference to the Macedonians (cf. v. 4).
8 This verb has been translated as an epistolary aorist.
9 That is, ready with the collection for the saints.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For I know your eagerness, and I boast about you to the Macedonians, “Achaia has been ready since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter would not prove empty, and so that you would be ready just as I said.

NLTNew Living Translation

For I know how eager you are to help, and I have been boasting to the churches in Macedonia that you in Greece were ready to send an offering a year ago. In fact, it was your enthusiasm that stirred up many of the Macedonian believers to begin giving.

But I am sending these brothers to be sure you really are ready, as I have been telling them, and that your money is all collected. I don’t want to be wrong in my boasting about you.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

because I know your readiness to help, concerning which I keep on boasting to the Macedonians about you, that Achaia has been ready to help since last year, and your zeal has stirred up the majority of them. But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you would not prove to be empty in this case, so that you may be prepared just as I was saying,

KJV 1900King James Version

For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many. Yet 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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