but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,

Because the ministry of this service not only is supplying the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,

Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my needs;

Not that I am speaking with respect to need, for I have learned to be content in whatever state I am.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tried, they were slain, being murdered with the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, being in want, being afflicted, being ill treated,

For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!

But as for the former acts of extortion in which [those who were] before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty shekels for bread and wine; and the [very] outcasts of them exercised authority over the people; but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

and because he was of the same trade, he remained with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.

I have desired the silver or gold or clothes of no one.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil; for laboring night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but in labor and hardship, working night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you,

not because we do not have authority, but in order that we may give ourselves as a pattern to you, so that you might follow us.

Now we make known to you brothers, the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia,

how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their generosity.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now once [again] you have revived your mindfulness on my behalf, inasmuch as indeed you were mindful, but you lacked opportunity.

Now you Philippians also know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church shared with me in an accounting of giving and receiving except you only.

Because even in Thessalonica, both once and again you sent for my need.

Now for the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not burden you. For I do not seek what is yours, but you. For the children ought not to store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

But be that as it may, I did not burden you. Nevertheless, being crafty, I took you with guile!

Nor seeking glory from men, neither from you, nor from others, even though we were able to carry weight as apostles of Christ.