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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:

Yet {G1161} have I sent {G3992} the brethren {G80}, lest {G3363} our {G2257} boasting {G2745} of {G5228} you {G5216} should be in vain {G2758} in {G1722} this {G5129} behalf {G3313}; that {G2443}, as {G2531} I said {G3004}, ye may be {G5600} ready {G3903}:

But now I am sending the brothers so that our boast about you in this regard will not prove hollow, so that you will be ready, as I said you would be.

But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.

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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Cross-References

  • 2 Corinthians 8:6 (3 votes)

    Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

  • 2 Corinthians 7:14 (2 votes)

    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.

  • 2 Corinthians 9:4 (2 votes)

    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.

  • 2 Corinthians 9:5 (2 votes)

    Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] covetousness.

  • Titus 3:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

  • 1 Corinthians 16:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

  • 1 Corinthians 16:4 (2 votes)

    And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.