2 Corinthians 8:5

and they did this, not only as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and then to us, through the will of God;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4beseeching us, with much entreaty, that they might give, and take part in the ministering to the saints;

6so that we exhorted Titus, that, as he had previously begun, so he would bring to an end this gift among you also.

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Cross References

Romans 12:1I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

1 Corinthians 6:19Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God, and that you 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 →

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