 | William Cooke, Joseph Barker - Christianity - 1845 - 512 pages
...absurdities. We have next a quotation from 2 Cor. viii., 9, " Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." Now, in the first place, the original does not indicate a state of pre-existence,... | |
 | John Flavel - Conversion - 1845 - 572 pages
...Christ to relieve him in his distressed members, though " 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 !" O ungrateful return ! O base and disingenuous spirits ! The... | |
 | 1853 - 730 pages
...was. 1 1 accords with the frequent allusions made to His boundless grace and amazing condescension, in that " though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich." It gives point and energy to the apostle's exhortation to pure,... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1845 - 428 pages
...Wherefore, glorify God with your bodies and vour spirits, which are his." " You know the grace of our Lord, that though he was rich, yet, for our sakes, he became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be made rich." " He left his starry crown, And laid his robes aside,... | |
 | Alexander Watson - 1846 - 442 pages
...SAVIOUR. Thus St. Paul writes to the Corinthians : " For ye know the grace of our LORD JESUS CHRIST, that though HE was rich, yet for our sakes HE became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich." The Prophet Jeremiah also exclaims, when speaking in the Person of the... | |
 | 1846 - 318 pages
...Paul's remarkable use of Jt in these words — " For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how that though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." This is the grace — the kindness — the selfsacrificing generosity... | |
 | D. L. Carroll - Sermons - 1846 - 386 pages
...a season Christ emptied himself of " that glory which he had with the Father before the world was," that " though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor," that though "he thought it not robbery to be equal with God, yet he made himself of no reputation, took... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - 1846 - 212 pages
...and 2. Besides the countless blessings of providence, " 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." " Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved... | |
 | D. L. Carroll - Sermons - 1846 - 384 pages
...a season Christ emptied himself of " that glory which he had with the Father before the world was," that " though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor," that though "he thought it not robbery to be equal with God, yet he made himself of no reputation, took... | |
 | David Magie - Bible - 1847 - 596 pages
...various earthly conditions, but loving his neighbor as himself, and knowing the grace of the Lord Jesus, that " though he was rich yet for our sakes he became poor, that we, through his poverty might be rich," he will be ready to every sacrifice for the salvation of his... | |
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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. 
