4:10 |
Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly, because finally, after some time, your feelings for me have flourished again, just as you formerly felt. For you had been preoccupied. |
4:11 |
I am not saying this as if out of need. For I have learned that, in whatever state I am, it is sufficient. |
4:12 |
I know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound. I am prepared for anything, anywhere: either to be full or to be hungry, either to have abundance or to endure scarcity. |
4:13 |
Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me. |
4:14 |
Yet truly, you have done well by sharing in my tribulation. |
4:15 |
But you also know, O Philippians, that at the beginning of the Gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not a single church shared with me in the plan of giving and receiving, except you alone. |
4:16 |
For you even sent to Thessalonica, once, and then a second time, for what was useful to me. |
4:17 |
It is not that I am seeking a gift. Instead, I seek the fruit that abounds to your benefit. |
4:18 |
But I have everything in abundance. I have been filled up, having received from Epaphroditus the things that you sent; this is an odor of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. |
4:19 |
And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. |