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2Cr 9:4 — Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

they		2Cr 9:2; 2Cr 8:1-5
be ashamed		2Cr 8:24; 2Cr 11:17

Correlating Passages

they

	2Cr 9:2	For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
	2Cr 8:1	Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
	2Cr 8:2	How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
	2Cr 8:3	For to [their] power, I bear record, yea, and beyond [their] power [they were] willing of themselves;
	2Cr 8:4	Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
	2Cr 8:5	And [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

be ashamed

	2Cr 8:24	Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
	2Cr 11:17	That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

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Scott, Thomas. "2 Corinthians 9:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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