Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:
And Moses sayde vnto the people feare not, for God is come to proue you, and that his feare maye be amonge you that ye synne not.Exodus 20:20 TYN
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 KJV
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 9:2 KJV