^{7 Ref} But as ye abound in everything, `in' faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and `in' all earnestness, and `in' your love to us, `see' that ye abound in this grace also.

^{8 Ref} I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

^{9 Ref} 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 become rich.