⁸ I robbed other churches by receiving support from them^(A) so as to serve you. ⁹ And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed.^(B) I have kept myself from being a burden to you^(C) in any way, and will continue to do so. ¹⁰ As surely as the truth of Christ is in me,^(D) nobody in the regions of Achaia^(E) will stop this boasting^(F) of mine. ¹¹ Why? Because I do not love you? God knows^(G) I do!^(H)

¹² And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about. ¹³ For such people are false apostles,^(I) deceitful^(J) workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.^{(K) 14} And no wonder, for Satan^(L) himself masquerades as an angel of light.

¹⁴ Now I am ready to visit you for the third time,^(A) and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents,^(B) but parents for their children.^{(C) 15} So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well.^(D) If I love you more,^(E) will you love me less? ¹⁶ Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you.^(F) Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery! ¹⁷ Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you? ¹⁸ I urged^(G) Titus^(H) to go to you and I sent our brother^(I) with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?

¹⁴ Yet it was good of you to share^(A) in my troubles. ¹⁵ Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days^(B) of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia,^(C) not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only;^{(D) 16} for even when I was in Thessalonica,^(E) you sent me aid more than once when I was in need.^(F)

²² But now he has reconciled^(A) you by Christ’s physical body^(B) through death to present you^(C) holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation^(D)— ²³ if you continue^(E) in your faith, established^(F) and firm, and do not move from the hope^(G) held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven,^(H) and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.^(I)