Study it in the app“So I considered it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance your previously promised blessing, so that this may be ready in this way: as a blessing and not as greed.”
SoοὖνI considered itἡγησάμηνnecessaryἀναγκαῖονto urgeπαρακαλέσαιthe brothersτοὺς ἀδελφοὺςtoἵναgo on aheadπροέλθωσινtoεἰςyouὑμᾶςandκαὶarrange in advanceπροκαταρτίσωσιyourὑμῶνpreviously promisedτὴν προεπηγγελμένηνblessing,εὐλογίανso thatthisταύτηνmay beεἶναιreadyἑτοίμηνin this way:οὕτωςasὡςa blessingεὐλογίανandκαὶnotμὴasὡςgreed.πλεονεξίαν
consider
To deem something so.
Where else “hēgēsamēn” appearsnecessary
Indispensable.
Where else “anankaion” appearsurge
To spur someone on with words to do good.
Where else “parakalesai” appearsbrother in faith
A believer, of the same family of God through the Messiah.
Where else “adelphous” appearsgo ahead
Go on ahead; go before.
Where else “proelthōsin” appearsprepare beforehand
Prepare beforehand, get ready in advance.
Where else “prokatartisōsi” appearspromise beforehand
Promise beforehand: announce in advance what will be given.
Where else “proepēngelmenēn” appearsblessing
The good God gives, or a generous gift.
Where else “eulogian” appearsbe
To be: says who or what something is.
Where else “einai” appearsready
Ready, prepared.
Where else “hetoimēn” appearsgreed
Greed, the craving to have more.
Where else “pleonexian” appears“Blessing”: here the offering is called so; it can be understood as something that blesses the one who receives it.
4lest somehow, if Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we be put to shame —not to say you— in this confidence.
5 · This verse (above)
6And remember this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows with blessings will also reap with blessings.
