The Example of Christ's Poverty

2 Corinthians 8:9-15

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

And herein I give my advice: for this is profitable for you who have begun not only to do but also to be willing, a year ago.

Now therefore perform ye it also in deed: that as your mind is forward to be willing, so it may be also to perform, out of that which you have.

For if the will be forward, it is accepted according to that which a man hath: not according to that which he hath not.

For I mean not that others should be eased and you burdened, but by an equality.

In this present time let your abundance supply their want, that their abundance also may supply your want: that there may be an equality,

As it is written: He that had much had nothing over; and he that had little had no want.