For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we–not to say anything about you–would be ashamed of having been so confident.
So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given.2 Corinthians 9:5 NIV
But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be.2 Corinthians 9:3 NIV