2 Corinthians 6:10
Good News Translation
although saddened, we are always glad; we seem poor, but we make many people rich; we seem to have nothing, yet we really possess everything.

New Revised Standard Version
as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Contemporary English Version
and we are always happy, even in times of suffering. Although we are poor, we have made many people rich. And though we own nothing, everything is ours.

New American Bible
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

Douay-Rheims Bible
As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

sorrowful.

2 Corinthians 2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.

2 Corinthians 7:3-10 I speak not this to your condemnation. For we have said before that you are in our hearts: to die together and to live together. . . .

Matthew 5:4,12 Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land. . . .

Luke 6:21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for you shall laugh.

John 16:22 So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

Acts 5:41 And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

Acts 16:25 And at midnight, Paul and Silas, praying, praised God. And they that were in prison heard them.

Romans 5:2,3 By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. . . .

Romans 9:2 That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing: that you may abound in hope and in the power of the Holy Ghost.

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: again, I say, rejoice.

1 Thessalonians 3:7-10 Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:16 Always rejoice.

Hebrews 10:34 For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

James 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations: . . .

1 Peter 1:6-8 Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations: . . .

1 Peter 4:13 But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

poor.

2 Corinthians 6:4 But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses,

making.

2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

2 Corinthians 8:9 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.

Romans 11:12 Now if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the diminution of them the riches of the Gentiles: how much more the fulness of them?

Ephesians 3:8,16 To me, the least of all the saints, is given this grace, to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ: . . .

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

1 Timothy 6:18 To do good, to be rich in good work, to give easily, to communicate to others,

James 2:5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

Revelation 2:9 I know thy tribulation and thy poverty: but thou art rich. And thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

and.

2 Corinthians 4:15 For all things are for your sakes: that the grace, abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God.

Psalm 84:11 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory.

Proverbs 16:16 Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.

Matthew 6:19,20 Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal. . . .

Luke 16:11,12 If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true? . . .

1 Corinthians 3:21-23 Let no man therefore glory in men. . . .

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Revelation 21:7 He that shall overcome shall possess these things. And I will be his God: and he shall be my son.

Context
Paul's Hardships and God's Grace
9As dying and behold we live: as chastised and not killed: 10As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things. 11Our mouth is open to you, O ye Corinthians: our heart is enlarged.…
Cross References
Proverbs 13:7
One is as it were rich, when he hath nothing and another is as it were poor, when he hath great riches.

John 16:22
So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.

Acts 3:6
But Peter said: Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk.

Romans 8:32
He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

1 Corinthians 1:5
That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance and in all knowledge;

1 Corinthians 3:21
Let no man therefore glory in men.

2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my confidence for you: great is my glorying for you. I am filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation.

2 Corinthians 8:9
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.

Philippians 2:17
Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all.

Philippians 4:4
Rejoice in the Lord always: again, I say, rejoice.

Colossians 1:24
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you and fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church:

1 Thessalonians 1:6
And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

Revelation 2:9
I know thy tribulation and thy poverty: but thou art rich. And thou art blasphemed by them that say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

2 Corinthians 6:9
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