2 Corinthians 6:10

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Summary

2 Corinthians 6:10

As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Sorrowful

Poor

2 Corinthians 6:4

Making

General references

Proverbs 8:10

Bible References

Sorrowful

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

Rejoice evermore.

For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

Poor

But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

Making

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

General references

Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.