...that can guide it, is love." In other words, it is the application of the Spirit of Him, who though He was rich yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich. He did not despise the mean and lowly shrub. He found it in a desert land and in the waste howling...

...that we expect to be and to have, most gladly laying it all at His blessed feet, whose grace we know that, though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich. Thus we shall not henceforth live unto ourselves, but unto Him who died for us and rose...

...the Happiness which it is right for me to have, and which that Somebody came to give me? "Who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich" True ? I know it must be true ! It was just like Him, so fine, and strong, and big-heart.ed....

...insistence on the voluntariness of the death. ' Ye know the grace [mercy] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor." 3 Another reply might be that Jesus an independent entity, an active subject to which all manner of...

...made. One ,of the simplest is 2 Corinthians viii. 9 : " For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor." The special characteristic of this passage is that it treats the subject in so plain and practical...

...imply that the traveller was affluent, or wealthy. In this he is like our Lord. Our Lord was rich, and for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich. He abandoned His wealth for a time, becoming thereby, and through death, for a brief period, inferior...

...Pfleiderer does not specify what Saviour-God of the mystery-cults there was of whom it might be said that " though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor." That the way the Gnostic worked out his conception of the Saviour involved a large borrowing from Hellenistic...

...youngest child who can read the New Testament may now learn. We " know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that We through his poverty might be rich," 2 Cor. viii. 9. How much, then, ought we to love him, and the heavenly Father who sent...

...then, for the first time in my life, I felt my need' of a Saviour, and I thought of Him who 'though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich' (2 Cor. 8.9). And now I treasure in my heart those words which once were so distasteful...

...and then the Rev. H P. Parker spoke from the text : " For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich " (2 Cor. viii. 9). This text was chosen as one especially suitable for a Christmas devotional...