2 Corinthians 8:9

WEB

⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

KJV

⁹For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

BSB

⁹For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

FBV

⁹^[+] For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Even though he was rich, he became poor for you, so that through his poverty you could become rich.

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Extra References

Romans 8:32

³²He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

⁶who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, ⁷but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. ⁸And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

Matthew 20:28

²⁸even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Romans 5:8

⁸But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

2 Corinthians 6:10

¹⁰as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

John 1:14

¹⁴The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born^[+] of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Ephesians 2:7

⁷that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;

James 2:5

⁵Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Ephesians 1:6-8

⁶to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved. ⁷In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace ⁸which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

Ephesians 3:8

⁸To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,