and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.

并且他们所做的，不但照我们所想望的，更照神的旨意先把自己献给主，又归附了我们。

并且他们所做的，不但照我们所期望的，更照上帝的旨意先把自己献给主，又给了我们。

并且他们所做的，不但照我们所期望的，更照神的旨意先把自己献给主，又给了我们。

他们这样做超过了我们的期望，并且他们按照上帝的旨意首先把自己献给主，然后献给我们。

他们超过了我们所期望的，照着神的旨意，先把自己献给主，然后献给我们。

他们不但照我们所盼望的，而且照着神的旨意，首先把自己献给了主，又献给了我们。

並且他們所做的，不但照我們所想望的，更照神的旨意先把自己獻給主，又歸附了我們。

並且他們所做的，不但照我們所期望的，更照上帝的旨意先把自己獻給主，又給了我們。

並且他們所做的，不但照我們所期望的，更照神的旨意先把自己獻給主，又給了我們。

他們這樣做超過了我們的期望，並且他們按照上帝的旨意首先把自己獻給主，然後獻給我們。

他們超過了我們所期望的，照著神的旨意，先把自己獻給主，然後獻給我們。

他們並且不單照我們所盼望的，反而憑着上帝的旨意、先把自己獻與主，也獻與我們。

他們不但照我們所盼望的，而且照著神的旨意，首先把自己獻給了主，又獻給了我們。

不第如我所望、且先獻己於主、又遵上帝旨、獻己於我儕、

行此出我望外、先委身事主、後從我遵上帝旨、

我望彼行此、不但如我所望、且始已獻己於主、又竭力事我、遵天主之旨、

而尤使吾儕喜出望外者、則彼等先獻身於主、而後秉承聖意以為吾儕效勞也。

And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us.

They did more than we expected. First they gave themselves to the Lord. Then they gave themselves to us because that was what God wanted.

They even did more than we had hoped, for their first action was to give themselves to the Lord and to us, just as God wanted them to do.

and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us by God’s will.

and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God.

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.

and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves especially to the Lord, then 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 they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

This was not as we had expected, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams.This one will say,‘ I am the Lord’s,’ another will call on the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand,‘ The Lord’s,’ and name himself by the name of Israel.”

Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said,“ We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you.” Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.

The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.

For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say,‘ They are my people’; and they will say,‘ The Lord is my God.’”