2 Corinthians 9:3
ContextNET © | But I am sending 1 these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready 2 just as I kept telling them. |
NIV © | 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. |
NASB © | But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this case, so that, as I was saying, you may be prepared; |
NLT © | But I am sending these brothers just to be sure that you really are ready, as I told them you would be, with your money all collected. I don’t want it to turn out that I was wrong in my boasting about you. |
MSG © | Now I'm sending the brothers to make sure you're ready, as I said you would be, so my bragging won't turn out to be just so much hot air. |
BBE © | But I have sent the brothers, so that the good things we said about you may be seen to be true, and that, as I said, you may be ready: |
NRSV © | But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you may not prove to have been empty in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be; |
NKJV © | Yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that, as I said, you may be ready; |
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NET © | But I am sending 1 these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready 2 just as I kept telling them. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn This verb has been translated as an epistolary aorist. 2 tn That is, ready with the collection for the saints. |