2 Corinthians 8:5

And not according as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by God's will.

Darby Translation

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

4begging of us with much entreaty [to give effect to] the grace and fellowship of the service which [was to be rendered] to the saints.

6So that we begged Titus that, according as he had before begun, so he would also complete as to you this grace also;

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Cross References

1 Samuel 1:28And also I have lent him to Jehovah: all the days that he lives, he is lent to Jehovah. And he worshipped Jehovah there.

2 Chronicles 30:8Now, harden not your necks, as your fathers; yield yourselves to Jehovah, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever; and serve Jehovah your God, that the fierceness of his anger may turn away from you.

Isaiah 44:3For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods 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 answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

Romans 12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your intelligent service.

1 Corinthians 6:19Do ye not know that your body is [the] temple of the Holy Spirit which [is] in you, which ye have of 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 →

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