And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us.
NMVAnd [this they did], not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord - Kurios, and unto us by the will of God-The Father.
OJBAnd this not merely according to tikvateinu. They gave themselves first to Adoneinu and to us birtzon Hashem (in the will of G-d),
RVand this, not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.
TCENTAnd they did not do this in the way we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us by the will of God.
T4TI thought that they would give only a little of their money, but they did much more than that. First, they told the Lord Jesus that they wanted to do what pleases him. After that, they told me that they wanted to do whatever I thought was good for them to do, because they were sure that would be what God wanted them to do.