lest if some Makedonians come with me and find you not ready, we – not to speak of you – should be put to shame because of our belief.
What I speak, I speak not according to the Master, but as in foolishness, in this boldness of boasting.
for I know your eagerness, about which I boast of you to the Makedonians, that Achaia was ready a year ago. And your ardour has stirred up most of them.
Therefore show to them the proof of your love and of our boasting on your behalf, and in the presence of the assemblies.
For it pleased those from Makedonia and Achaia to make some contribution for the poor among the set-apart ones who are in Yerushalayim.
On the first day of the week let each one of you set aside, storing up whatever he is prospered, so that there are no collections when I come.
I, Sha’ul, wrote with my own hand. I shall repay – not to mention to you that you indeed owe yourself to me also.