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2 Corinthians 8:5

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and this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

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2 Corinthians 8:5 in other translations

This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

2 Corinthians 8:5 · World English Bible

2 Corinthians 8:5 in context

  1. 3For according to their power, I bear witness, yea and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
  2. 4beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:
  3. 5and this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
  4. 6Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.
  5. 7But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.