2 Corinthians 8:9 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁹ You know how gracious the Lord Jesus Christ was. Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, in order that by his poverty you might become rich.

²⁰ And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes and wild birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no where to lay his head!"

²⁷ But rather than give offense to them, go down to the sea and throw in a hook. Take the first fish that comes up, open its mouth and you will find in it a dollar. Take that and pay the tax for us both."

²⁸ just as the Son of Man has come not to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to ransom many others."

³ Is he not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?"

⁷ and she gave birth to her first-born son; and she wrapped him up, and laid him in a manger, for there was no room for them at the inn.

³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them with their means.

⁵⁸ Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and wild birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head!"

¹¹ So if you have proved untrustworthy in using your ill-gotten wealth, who will trust you with true riches?

¹ In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine. ² It was he that was with God in the beginning. ³ Everything came into existence through him, and apart from him nothing came to be. ⁴ It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

¹⁰ He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him.

¹⁴ So the Word became flesh and blood and lived for a while among us, abounding in blessing and truth, and we saw the honor God had given him, such honor as an only son receives from his father.

¹⁷ For while the Law was given through Moses, blessing and truth came to us through Jesus Christ.

³⁰ Jesus answered, "It was not for my sake that the voice came, but for yours.

¹⁵ All that the Father has belongs to me. That is why I said that he will take what is mine and communicate it to you.

¹⁹ And it is for their sake that I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated by truth.

⁸ But God proves his love for us by the fact that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

²⁰ Then law slipped in, and multiplied the offense. But greatly as sin multiplied, God's mercy has far surpassed it, ²¹ so that just as sin had reigned through death, mercy might reign through uprightness and bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

³² Will not he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, with that gift give us everything?

¹² But if their false step has so enriched the world, and their defeat has so enriched the heathen, how much more good the addition of their full number will do!

⁴ I am always thanking God about you, for the blessing God has given you through Christ Jesus.

²¹ So no one should boast about men. For it all belongs to you— ²² Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it belongs to you.

⁴⁷ The first man is of the dust of the earth; the second man is from heaven.

¹⁰ pained, when I am always glad, poor, when I make many others rich, penniless, when really I own everything.

¹⁴ The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the participation in the holy Spirit be with you all.

⁶ so that we might praise the splendid blessing which he has given us through his beloved Son. ⁷ It is through union with him and through his blood that we have been delivered and our offenses forgiven, ⁸ in the abundance of his mercy which he has lavished upon us.

⁷ to show the incomparable wealth of his mercy throughout the ages to come by his goodness to us through Christ Jesus.

⁸ To me, the very least of all his people, this favor has been given, of preaching to the heathen the inexhaustible wealth of the Christ,

¹⁹ and to understand Christ's love, so far beyond our understanding, so that you may be filled with the very fulness of God.

⁶ Though he possessed the nature of God, he did not grasp at equality with God, ⁷ but laid it aside to take on the nature of a slave and become like other men. ⁸ When he had assumed human form, he still further humbled himself and carried his obedience so far as to die, and to die upon the cross.

¹⁶ for it was through him that everything was created in heaven and on earth, the seen and the unseen, angelic thrones, dominions, principalities, authorities—all things were created through him and for him. ¹⁷ He existed before all things and he sustains and embraces them all.

²⁴ At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.

¹⁸ Charge them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous,

² but in these latter days he has spoken to us in a Son, whom he had destined to possess everything, and through whom he had made the world.

⁶ But of the time when he is to bring his firstborn Son back to the world he says, "And let all God's angels bow before him." ⁷ In speaking of the angels he says, "He who changes his angels into winds, And his attendants into blazing fire!" ⁸ But of the Son he says, "God is your throne forever and ever! And a righteous scepter is the scepter of his kingdom! ⁹ You have loved right and hated wrong! That is why God, your God, has anointed you with exhilarating oil beyond all your comrades." ¹⁰ And "You, Lord, in the beginning founded the earth, And the sky is the work of your hands! ¹¹ They will perish, but you continue! And they will all wear out like a coat, ¹² And you will fold them up like a mantle, And change them as one changes his coat. But you are always the same, and your years will have no end!" ¹³ But to what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for you"? ¹⁴ Are not the angels all spirits in service, whom he sends on his errands for the good of those who are destined to possess salvation?

⁵ Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

¹⁸ I advise you to buy of me gold that has been tested with fire, so that you may be rich, and white clothes to put on, to keep your shameful nakedness from being seen, and salve to put on your eyes, to make you see.

⁷ He who is victorious will possess all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.