2 Corinthians 8:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 4 In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that their abundance also may supply your want, that there may be an equality,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Nor [was this gift of theirs merely the contribution] that we expected, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us [as His agents] by the will of God [entirely disregarding their personal interests, they gave as much as they possibly could, having put themselves at our disposal to be directed by the will of God]–

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

⁵ They even exceeded our expectations, because they gave themselves to the Lord first and to us, consistent with God’s will.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And this is beyond what we had hoped, since they gave themselves, first of all to the Lord, and then also to us, through the will of God,

2 Corinthians 8:5 Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:18

3 And this is the number of the chiefs of the army who came to David, when he was in Hebron, to transfer to him the kingdom of Saul, according to the word of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 30:12

7 Because a great number was not sanctified: and therefore the Levites immolated the phase for them that came not in time to be sanctified to the Lord.

2 Chronicles 30:8

3 And much people were assembled to Jerusalem to celebrate the solemnity of the unleavened bread in the second month:

Jeremiah 31:33

The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord in the tenth year of Sedecias king of Juda: the same is eighteenth year of Nabuchodonosor.

Zechariah 13:9

And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem: half of them to the east sea, and half of them to the last sea: they shall be in summer and in winter.

Romans 12:1

Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good.

Romans 6:13

1 What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

1 Corinthians 1:1

0 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

2 Corinthians 4:5

4 Knowing that he who raised up Jesus, will raise us up also with Jesus, and place us with you.

2 Corinthians 8:1

0 And herein I give my advice; for this is profitable for you, who have begun not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.

1 Samuel 1:28

They that were full before have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.