⁹ For you know the generous act^[a] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.^(A)

³² He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else?

²⁸ just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”^(A)

⁸ But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.^(A)

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son,^[a] full of grace and truth.^(A)

⁸ Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ^(A)

¹⁰ as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

⁶ And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says,

⁷ Of the angels he says,

⁸ But of the Son he says,

¹⁰ And,

¹³ And to which of the angels has he ever said,

¹⁴ Are not all angels^[e] spirits in the divine service, sent to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?^(G)