2 Corinthians 8:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

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  • 1 Sam 1:28 : 28 and also I have caused him to be asked for Jehovah, all the days that he hath lived -- he is asked for Jehovah;' and he boweth himself there before Jehovah.
  • 1 Chr 12:18 : 18 And the Spirit hath clothed Amasai, head of the captains: `To thee, O David, and with thee, O son of Jesse -- peace! peace to thee, and peace to thy helper, for thy God hath helped thee;' and David receiveth them, and putteth them among the heads of the troop.
  • 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 `Now, harden not your neck like your fathers, give a hand to Jehovah, and come in to His sanctuary, that He hath sanctified to the age, and serve Jehovah your God, and the fierceness of His anger doth turn back from you;
  • 2 Chr 30:12 : 12 Also, in Judah hath the hand of God been to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and of the heads, in the matter of Jehovah;
  • Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I pour waters on a thirsty one, And floods on a dry land, I pour My Spirit on thy seed, And My blessing on thine offspring. 4 And they have sprung up as among grass, As willows by streams of water. 5 This `one' saith, For Jehovah I `am', And this calleth `himself' by the name of Jacob, And this `one' writeth `with' his hand, `For Jehovah,' and by the name of Israel surnameth himself.
  • Jer 31:33 : 33 For this `is' the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.
  • Zech 13:9 : 9 And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, `My people it `is',' And it saith, `Jehovah `is' my God!'
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;
  • Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die; 8 for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's; 9 for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.
  • 1 Cor 6:19-20 : 19 Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, 20 for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died, 15 and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
  • 2 Cor 8:1 : 1 And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

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  • 2 Cor 8:1-4
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    1And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia,

    2because in much trial of tribulation the abundance of their joy, and their deep poverty, did abound to the riches of their liberality;

    3because, according to `their' power, I testify, and above `their' power, they were willing of themselves,

    4with much entreaty calling on us to receive the favour and the fellowship of the ministration to the saints,

  • 2 Cor 8:6-8
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    6so that we exhorted Titus, that, according as he did begin before, so also he may finish to you also this favour,

    7but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

    8not according to command do I speak, but because of the diligence of others, and of your love proving the genuineness,

  • 1 Thess 2:8-9
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    8so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

    9for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

  • 2 Cor 8:19-22
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    19and not only so, but who was also appointed by vote by the assemblies, our fellow-traveller, with this favour that is ministered by us, unto the glory of the same Lord, and your willing mind;

    20avoiding this, lest any one may blame us in this abundance that is ministered by us,

    21providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

    22and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,

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    16And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,

    17because indeed the exhortation he accepted, and being more diligent, of his own accord he went forth unto you,

  • 1 Thess 2:4-6
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    4but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

    5for at no time did we come with speech of flattery, (as ye have known,) nor in a pretext for covetousness, (God `is' witness!)

    6nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

  • 2 Cor 9:5
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    5Necessary, therefore, I thought `it' to exhort the brethren, that they may go before to you, and may make up before your formerly announced blessing, that this be ready, as a blessing, and not as covetousness.

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    8for from you hath sounded forth the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God did go forth, so that we have no need to say anything,

    9for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

  • 2 Thess 3:8-9
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    8nor for nought did we eat bread of any one, but in labour and in travail, night and day working, not to be chargeable to any of you;

    9not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

  • 1 Thess 1:5-6
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    5because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

    6and ye -- ye did become imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

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    11ye working together also for us by your supplication, that the gift through many persons to us, through many may be thankfully acknowledged for us.

    12For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

  • 2 Cor 1:8-9
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    8For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above `our' power, so that we despaired even of life;

    9but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

  • 2 Cor 9:13
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    13through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and `for' the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,

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    24not that we are lords over your faith, but we are workers together with your joy, for by the faith ye stand.

  • 1 Thess 2:1
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    1For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

  • 2 Cor 1:15
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    15and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

  • 2 Cor 8:12
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    12for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,

    12that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

  • 2 Cor 4:5
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    5for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

  • 2 Cor 8:24
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    24the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

  • 2 Thess 3:4-5
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    4and we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that the things that we command you ye both do and will do;

    5and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

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    6And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also `to see' you,

    7because of this we were comforted, brethren, over you, in all our tribulation and necessity, through your faith,

  • 1 Thess 1:3
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    3unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

  • Phlm 1:14
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    14and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,

  • 3 John 1:7
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    7because for `His' name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;

  • 1 Thess 3:9
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    9for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

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    15not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope -- your faith increasing -- in you to be enlarged, according to our line -- into abundance,

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    12for not again ourselves do we recommend to you, but we are giving occasion to you of glorifying in our behalf, that ye may have `something' in reference to those glorifying in face and not in heart;

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    16and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,