²⁴ Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.

¹⁴ For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

⁴ My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

⁸ I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

² For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.

³ 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:

⁴ For fear that, if any from Macedonia come with me, and you are not ready, we (not to say, you) might be put to shame in this thing.