they
2 Corinthians 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.
2 Corinthians 8:1-5
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Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
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How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
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For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;
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Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
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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
2 Corinthians 8:24
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
2 Corinthians 11:17
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.