But in all things presenting ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

For the administration of this service not only supplies the need of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

But the former governors that had been before me laid burdens upon the people, and had taken of them food and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bore rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and worked: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.

I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because we would not be a burden unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but worked with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you:

Not because we have not that right, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us.

Moreover, brethren, we want you to know of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished again; in which you were also concerned, but you lacked opportunity.

Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again unto my necessity.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I took you with guile.

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.