2 Corinthians 8:5
And it was not as we expected, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us through the will of God,
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4with much exhortation, begging of us the favor, even the fellowship of service for the sanctified.
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:28Therefore also I have granted him to LORD; as long as he lives he is granted to LORD. And he worshipped LORD there.
2 Chronicles 30:8Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Isaiah 44:3For I will pour water upon him who is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, LORD i
Romans 12:1I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.
1 Corinthians 6:19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own,
Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 8:2-7
Charity of the Macedonians. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3 For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4 Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5 And this… Read the whole commentary →