1. For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,
2. because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.
3. But I am sending these brothers so that our boasting about you may not be empty in this case, so that you may be ready just as I kept telling them.
4. For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.