Philippians 4:10-20 - Support For Paul's Ministry

¹⁰ Moreover, I greatly rejoiced in the Lord that now once more your care for me blossomed afresh; though indeed you did take thought in this matter, but you lacked the opportunity of expression. ¹¹ Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens. ¹² I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want. ¹³ I am strong for everything in Him who gives me strength. ¹⁴ Notwithstanding, you have acted nobly in making yourselves comrades in my trouble.

¹⁵ And you very well know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I had left Macedonia, no church but yourselves had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving. ¹⁶ For even while I was still in Thessalonica, you sent once and again for my needs. ¹⁷ It is not your gifts I am eager for, but I am eager for the abundant profit that accrues to your divine account. ¹⁸ But I give you a receipt in full for all things abound. I am amply supplied with what you sent by Epaphroditus??n odor of sweet fragrance, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God. ¹⁹ All your own needs my God will fully supply, according to his riches in glory, in Christ Jesus. ²⁰ Now unto our God and Father be the glory, forever and ever. Amen.