...an object of Christian liberality. " 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." Ah I they who thus know his grace, can answer to every call of duty. — " The love of Christ constraineth...

...exalt all who believe in him, to a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich. 4. It imports, that while he was in this world, the rays of his Divinity or Divine glory shone through...

...glory, and cover himself with a veil of flesh, and become " acquainted with grief." — " Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich." He who built all worlds, condescended to say of himself, " The foxes have holes, and the birds of the...

...the cure of this very same distress, that he came in the flesh and died on the tree. He was rich, but for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich. He came to seek and to save them that were lost. His heart bled, it would seem, over the miseries of...

...us, let us recall Paul's words, ' For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich.' Does that grace dwell in us? Have we become poor, that any might be rich? Has our giving touched any...

...selfishness, but benevolence —nay, more, it is beneficence. This is Christ-like, 'Who, though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we, through His poverty, might become rich." Now, we might have spent all this upon ourselves in presents, which in a few days...

...Him. " Though he was rich " in the fulness of everything which constitutes our ideal of happiness, " yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich." 2 That is, rich in that spirit of charity in which the Divine 1 Ephesians v. 2....

...Christ, and can never be poor any more, because all his resources are placed at our disposal. He was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich. May we be rich in faith and love and all grace, and show our confidence in thee...

...how unkind the looks that would be waiting for him here and there, on the right hand and on the left. Yet, for our sakes, he became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich. There was nothing strange in the revelation of this lot which met the Saviour —...

...of His own home whilst we were out in the darkness of His Father's frown. Therefore, though He was rich, yet for our sakes He became poor, that we through His poverty might be rich. There is great force in that little word " remember" for very often those who are " out of sight "...