"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."
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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.
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 God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
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.
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
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 God.
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.
For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
And not according as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by God's will.
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.
And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God:
This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,