9:1 For it is not necessary ¹  for me to write you about this service ²  to the saints, 9:2 because I know your eagerness to help. ³  I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, ⁴  that Achaia has been ready to give ⁵  since last year, and your zeal to participate ⁶  has stirred up most of them. ⁷