And in this confidence I intended to go to you before, that you might have a second benefit;

But I call on God as a witness against my soul, that wishing to spare you, I did not go to Corinth;

As co-workers with him, we beseech you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain:

Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.