1 Corinthians 1:26-29

26For consider your calling, brothers: anot many of you were wise according to worldly standards,
Greek  according to the flesh
not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.
27But cGod chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; dGod chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28God chose what is low and despised in the world, even ethings that are not, to fbring to nothing things that are, 29so gthat no human being
Greek  no flesh
might boast in the presence of God.

2 Corinthians 6:10

10 ias sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; jas poor, yet making many rich; kas having nothing, lyet possessing everything.

2 Corinthians 8:2

2for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and mtheir extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

2 Corinthians 8:9

9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that nthough he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

6And oyou became imitators of us pand of the Lord, for qyou received the word in much affliction, rwith the sjoy of the Holy Spirit,

James 1:9-10

9Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10and tthe rich in his humiliation, because ulike a flower of the grass
Or  a wild flower
he will pass away.

James 2:5

5Listen, my beloved brothers, whas not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be xrich in faith and heirs of ythe kingdom, zwhich he has promised to those who love him?

Revelation of John 2:9

9“‘I know your tribulation and aayour poverty ( abbut you are rich) and the slander
Greek blasphemy
of adthose who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
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