Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

Thank You For The Gift Epaphroditus Brought, And Your Continuing Partnership With Me

¹⁰ Now I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last you revived your thinking about me— upon which^[a] indeed you were thinking, but you were lacking-opportunity. ¹¹ Not that I speak in relation to a need, for I learned to be content in the things in which I am. ¹² I indeed know-how to be humbled. I also know-how to abound. In anything and in all things, I have learned-the-secret^[b]— both to be filled-to-satisfaction and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in-need. ¹³ I can-do all things by-means-of ^[c] the One strengthening me. ¹⁴ Nevertheless, you did well having co-partnered^[d] in my affliction.

You Alone Have Partnered With Me From The First

¹⁵ And you also know, Philippians, that in the beginning of the good-news when I departed from Macedonia, no church partnered^[e] with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone. ¹⁶ Because even in Thessalonica you sent to me both once and twice^[f] for my need. ¹⁷ Not that I am seeking-for the gift, but I am seeking-for the fruit increasing to your account.

I Have Received Your Pleasing Offering To God, And I Am Abounding

¹⁸ And I am receiving everything in full, and I am abounding. I have been filled-up, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you— an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. ¹⁹ And my God will fill-up every need of yours in-accordance-with His riches in glory in Christ Jesus. ²⁰ Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever, amen.