5And not according as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by God's will.
5And not according as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by God's will.
2 that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their free-hearted liberality.
3 For according to their power, I bear witness, and beyond their power, they were willing of their own accord,
4 begging of us with much entreaty to give effect to the grace and fellowship of the service which was to be rendered to the saints.
5 And not according as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by God's will.
6 So that we begged Titus that, according as he had before begun, so he would also complete as to you this grace also;
7 but even as ye abound in every way, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in love from you to us, that ye may abound in this grace also.
8:5And [this they did,] not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
8:5And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God's will.
8:5And not as we hoped, but they gave their own selves first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God:
8:5and this , not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
8:5and this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.
8:5And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God:
8:5This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
8:5and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,
8:5And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.