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 Give two texts from the New Testament which reveal this doctrine.

            Our Lord Jesus Christ, though He was rich, yet for your sake became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich (2 Cor 8:9).

            The glory which Thou, Father, gavest Me I have given to them, that they may be perfectly one (Jn 17:22-23).

            Thus the Lord states that He has given a share of the divine glory to His Apostles, and He prays that they may be united to God.

            Although not noted in the textbook, the italicized words in the following passage also convey the meaning of deification:

And He Himself gave some to be Apostles and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of faith of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph 4:11-13).