2 Corinthians 8:5
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.
KJV
καὶ οὐ καθὼς ἠλπίσαμεν ἀλλὰ ἑαυτοὺς ἔδωκαν πρῶτον τῷ κυρίῳ καὶ ἡμῖν διὰ θελήματος θεοῦ,
Greek NT
Et non sicut speravimus, sed semetipsos dederunt primum Domino, deinde nobis per voluntatem Dei,
Vulgate
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.
ASV
And not as we hoped: but they gave their own selves, first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God;
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
θέλημα
thelema
noun · 62×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
πρῶτον
proton
adverb · 57×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐλπίζω
elpizo
verb · 31×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2833"Our" bread is the "one" loaf for the "many." In the Beatitudes "poverty" is the virtue of sharing: it calls us to communicate and share both material and spiritual goods, not by coercion but out of love, so that the abundance of some may remedy the needs of others.120
2. Whence then does He begin? And what kind of foundations of His new polity does He lay for us? Let us hearken with strict attention unto what is said. For though it was spoken unto them, it was written for the sake also of all men afterwards. And accordingly on this account, though He had His disciples in His mind in His public preaching, yet unto them He limits not His sayin…
1. Let us hear the oracles of God with fear, with fear and much trembling. For (it is said) Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice unto Him with trembling. Psalm 2:11 But if even our joy and our exultation ought to be with trembling, of what punishment are we not worthy, if we listen not with terror to what is said, when the things spoken, as now, are themselves fearful? For hav…
Cross-references
- 1Chr 12:18 — Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy
- 1Sam 1:28 — Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
- 1Tim 4:15 — Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
- 2Chr 30:12 — Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
- 2Cor 5:14 — For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
- 2Cor 8:1 — Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
- Acts 17:4 — And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
- Deut 26:17 — Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
- Isa 44:5 — One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
- Ps 119:106 — I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
- Rom 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go
- Rom 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go
- Rom 12:1 — I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
- Rom 14:7 — For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.