Thanks for Their Gifts

¹⁰ I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me.^(A) Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it. ¹¹ I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content^(B) whatever the circumstances. ¹² I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry,^(C) whether living in plenty or in want.^{(D) 13} I can do all this through him who gives me strength.^(E)

¹⁴ Yet it was good of you to share^(F) in my troubles. ¹⁵ Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days^(G) of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia,^(H) not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only;^{(I) 16} for even when I was in Thessalonica,^(J) you sent me aid more than once when I was in need.^{(K) 17} Not that I desire your gifts; what I desire is that more be credited to your account.^{(L) 18} I have received full payment and have more than enough. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus^(M) the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant^(N) offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will meet all your needs^(O) according to the riches of his glory^(P) in Christ Jesus.

⁸ So Abram said to Lot,^(A) “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me,^(B) or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.^{(C) 9} Is not the whole land before you? Let’s part company. If you go to the left, I’ll go to the right; if you go to the right, I’ll go to the left.”^(D)

¹⁰ Lot looked around and saw that the whole plain^(E) of the Jordan toward Zoar^(F) was well watered, like the garden of the Lord,^(G) like the land of Egypt.^(H) (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom^(I) and Gomorrah.)^{(J) 11} So Lot chose for himself the whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east. The two men parted company: ¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan,^(K) while Lot^(L) lived among the cities of the plain^(M) and pitched his tents near Sodom.^{(N) 13} Now the people of Sodom^(O) were wicked and were sinning greatly against the Lord.^(P)

¹⁴ The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.^{(Q) 15} All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring^[a] forever.^{(R) 16} I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.^{(S) 17} Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land,^(T) for I am giving it to you.”^(U)

¹⁸ So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre^(V) at Hebron,^(W) where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.^(X)