¹⁵ Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, ^(A)no church shared with me concerning giving and receiving but you only.

^5 (A)for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,

⁸ I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you. ⁹ And when I was present with you, and in need, ^(A)I was a burden to no one, for what I lacked ^(B)the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied. And in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so I will keep myself. ^10 (C)As the truth of Christ is in me, ^(D)no one shall stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. ¹¹ Why? ^(E)Because I do not love you? God knows!

¹² But what I do, I will also continue to do, ^(F)that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

Signs of an Apostle

¹¹ I have become ^(A)a fool ^[a]in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for ^(B)in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though ^(C)I am nothing. ^12 (D)Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and ^(E)wonders and mighty ^(F)deeds. ¹³ For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except that I myself was not burdensome to you? Forgive me this wrong!

Love for the Church

^14 (G)Now for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be burdensome to you; for ^(H)I do not seek yours, but you. ^(I)For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. ¹⁵ And I will very gladly spend and be spent ^(J)for your souls; though ^(K)the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

⁴⁰ So they went out of the prison ^(A)and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.

Preaching Christ at Thessalonica

17 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to ^(B)Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. ² Then Paul, as his custom was, ^(C)went in to them, and for three Sabbaths ^(D)reasoned with them from the Scriptures, ³ explaining and demonstrating ^(E)that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ.” ^4 (F)And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and ^(G)Silas.

Assault on Jason’s House

⁵ But the Jews ^[a]who were not persuaded, ^[b]becoming ^(H)envious, took some of the evil men from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of ^(I)Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Gehazi’s Greed

²⁰ But ^(A)Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

¹⁶ But he said, ^(A)“As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, ^(B)I will receive nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.