GRACE 2 Corinthians 8:8-9

 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

I am not commanding you 
1 Corinthians 7:6  I say this as a concession, not as a command.

For you know the grace
Romans 3:24  ... and all justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

of our Lord Jesus Christ 
2 Corinthians 13:14  May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor 
Matthew 20:28  "... just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Philippians 2:6-8  Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death--even death on a cross!


so that you through his poverty might become rich 
2 Corinthians 6:10  ... sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

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