¹⁸ But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things `that came' from you, and odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

¹² I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

¹⁶ But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

²⁵ But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;

²⁶ since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:

² and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

¹² For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;

⁵ ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

³ We are bound to give thanks to God always to you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith growth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;

¹⁴ But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.

¹⁵ For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;

¹⁶ to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

¹ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, `which is' your spiritual service.

³ Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

⁴ But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,

⁵ Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?

⁶ Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

⁷ Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.

⁸ For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.