1. For regarding the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
2. For I know your ready desire, for which I gloried of you to those of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal has provoked many.
3. Yet I have sent the brethren lest our glorying of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready,
4. lest haply if those of Macedonia come with me and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed of this our confidence.