When he had spent all, there was a great famine throughout that country, and he began to be in want.

And shall not he whose want of circumcision is owing to his birth, if he keeps the law, condemn you, who, by the literal circumcision, transgress the law?

For I do not intend that there shall be relief to others, and affliction to you; but that, according to equality, your abundance, at the present time, may supply their wants;

and that, at a future time, their abundance may supply your wants; that there may be equality,

because the administration of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints, but also abounds in many thanksgivings to God;

for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied my wants; and in every thing I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will continue to keep myself.

Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labor and fellow-soldier, but your apostle, who also ministered to my want,

I do not speak in respect to want: for I have learned, in whatever condition I am, to be content.

I know what it is to be in want, and what it is to have abundance. Everywhere and in all things, I have been fully instructed in being full and in being hungry, in having abundance and in being in want.