...all the more, while we long for the time when, with clear vision, no clouds between, we shall see Him "Who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich" (II Cor. 8:9). Moreover, it is in the world we can best learn to live by faith, to live...

...Into this world there was to come one who could say, "I was naked, and ye clothed me not," who, "being rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might become rich." 3 And the LORD said, Even as my servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three...

..."Before honour is humility." "He was rich" - the Most High God, possessor of the heavens and the earth - "yet for our sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be made rich." There was an absolute necessity for the incarnation of Jesus. Whence did that necessity arise? God's...

...forth. They are to become laborers together with God, self-denying, self-sacrificing, like Jesus, who for our sakes became poor, that we through His poverty might be made rich. . . . Has God enlightened you with a knowledge of Himself? Have the treasures of His Word been opened...

...but help us truly to serve you so that your will may be done. We pray in the spirit of the One who was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich. Amen. C. Eric Mount Jr. O God, we confess our guilty sounds and our guilty silences....

...nothing, yet possess all things"? Is he not the type of their Lord Himself, the Giver of all good, "who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich"? Who was it who had not a place to lay His head? Who was He who had no near relative...

...among the natives, to wear Chinese dress and live in Chinese houses, rejoicing in the footsteps of Him who "though he was rich, yet for our sakes became...that we, through his poverty, might be made rich." We do not ask people to come out to live in costly foreign style . . . barely touching the heathen...