But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove empty, but that you will be prepared, just as I said.
So we urged Titus to help complete your act of grace, just as he had started it.
For not only did he welcome our appeal, but he is eagerly coming to you of his own volition.
Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia:
Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true
Remind the believers to submit to rulers and authorities, to be obedient and ready for every good work,
Otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of you—would be ashamed of having