2 Corinthians 9:4
2 Corinthians 9:3-5 The Message (MSG)
Now I’m sending the brothers to make sure you’re ready, as I said you would be, so my bragging won’t turn out to be just so much hot air. If some Macedonians and I happened to drop in on you and found you weren’t prepared, we’d all be pretty red-faced—you and us—for acting so sure of ourselves. So to make sure there will be no slipup, I’ve recruited these brothers as an advance team to get you and your promised offering all ready before I get there. I want you to have all the time you need to make this offering in your own way. I don’t want anything forced or hurried at the last minute.
2 Corinthians 9:4 King James Version (KJV)
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.
2 Corinthians 9:4 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
otherwise if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—will be put to shame by this confidence.
2 Corinthians 9:4 New Century Version (NCV)
If any of the people from Macedonia come with me and find that you are not ready, we will be ashamed that we were so sure of you. (And you will be ashamed, too!)
2 Corinthians 9:4 American Standard Version (ASV)
lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.
2 Corinthians 9:4 New King James Version (NKJV)
lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to mention you!) should be ashamed of this confident boasting.
2 Corinthians 9:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
otherwise, if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—to say nothing of yourselves—will be humiliated for being so confident.
2 Corinthians 9:4 New Living Translation (NLT)
We would be embarrassed—not to mention your own embarrassment—if some Macedonian believers came with me and found that you weren’t ready after all I had told them!
2 Corinthians 9:4 The Passion Translation (TPT)
For if, after boasting of our confidence in you, some of the Macedonians were to come with me and find that you were not prepared, we would be embarrassed—to say nothing of you.