2 Corinthians 9:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ 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;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Still, I am sending the brethren [on to you], lest our pride in you should be made an empty boast in this particular case, and so that you may be all ready, as I told them you would be;

American Standard Version (1901)

³ 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:

Common English Bible

³ But I’m sending the brothers so that our bragging about you in this case won’t be empty words, and so that you can be prepared, just as I keep telling them you will be.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Now I have sent the brothers, so that what we glory about concerning you might be not be empty in this matter, in order that (as I have explained) you may be prepared.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Now I have sent the brethren, that the thing which we boast of concerning you, be not made void in this behalf, that (as I have said) you may be ready:

2 Corinthians 9:3 Cross References

2 Corinthians 7:14

For if I have been somewhat boastful about you to him, I was not put to shame, but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved true as well.

2 Corinthians 7:4

I am being completely frank with you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with consolation; I am overjoyed in all our affliction.

2 Corinthians 8:6

so that we might urge Titus that, as he had already made a beginning, so he should also complete this generous undertaking among you.

Titus 3:1

Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,