5 not indeed as if we had expected this; but they gave themselves first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God,
2 Corinthians 8:5 Cross References - Thomson
1 Samuel 1:28
28 therefore I dedicate him to the Lord, all the days of his life, as a loan to the Lord. Then she said,
1 Chronicles 12:18
18 Whereupon Amasai, a chief of the thirty, became inspired, and said, Advance, David son of Jessai! for they are thy people; Peace! peace to thee! and peace to them who assist thee, because thy God hath helped thee. So David received them, and made them officers of the armies.
2 Chronicles 30:8
8 Now therefore be not stubborn as your fathers were. Give glory to the Lord God, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath hallowed forever, and serve the Lord your God, and he will turn away his fierce indignation from you.
2 Chronicles 30:12
12 Now to these the hand of the Lord had given one heart to come and do what the king and the chiefs had commanded by a word of the Lord.
Isaiah 44:3-5
3 for I will give water in their thirst to them who are travelling in a desert. I will put my spirit on thy seed, and my blessings on thy children;
4 and they shall spring up like grass among water, and like a willow by the side of a flowing stream.
5 One will say, "I belong to God;" and another will call himself by the name of Jacob; and another will write on his hand, "I belong to God;" and will surname himself by the name of Israel.
Jeremiah 31:33
33 For this, saith the Lord, is my covenant which I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will adapt my laws to their understanding and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.
Zechariah 13:9
9 And when I have passed this third part through fire, and tried them as silver is tried, and proved them as gold is proved; this people will invoke My name and I will hear them and say, this is my people, and they will say, the Lord is my God.
Romans 6:13
13 nor deliver up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but deliver yourselves up to God, as brought to life from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God.
Romans 12:1
1 therefore I exhort you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living, holy, acceptable sacrifice to God as your rational, religious service;
Romans 14:7-9
7 For none of us liveth to himself, nor doth any die to himself.
8 For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord; so that whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
9 For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
2 Corinthians 4:5
5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15
2 Corinthians 8:1
1 We now, brethren, make known to you, the bounty of God which hath been granted by the congregations of Macedonia,