⁴ lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

²⁶ For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem.

¹ Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;

² how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

³ For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, `they gave' of their own accord,

⁴ beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

⁵ and `this', not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

²⁴ Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

² for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.

¹⁷ That which I speak, I speak not after the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of glorying.