I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has turned out rather to help than to the hindrance of the gospel.

[I also want to hear] that you are not being frightened by those who oppose you, which [opposition] is proof that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved, and this will [all] be done by God.

Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh to death, not regarding his life, to supply the want of your service towards me.

I want to know the Messiah what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

Stop being worried about anything, but always, in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving, keep on making your wants known to God.

Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens.

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.

For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to supply my wants.

It is not your gift that I want, but I do want the profits to pile up to your credit.

My wants are fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts which you sent me--the sweet fragrance of a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.

And my God will supply all your wants, according to his riches, in glory, by Christ Jesus.