For if I have expressed to him some pride in you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.
2 Corinthians 9:3 - Revised Standard Version But I am sending the brethren so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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: |
For if I have expressed to him some pride in you, I was not put to shame; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting before Titus has proved true.
I have great confidence in you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. With all our affliction, I am overjoyed.
Accordingly we have urged Titus that as he had already made a beginning, he should also complete among you this gracious work.
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for any honest work,