⁹ And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.

⁶ Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

⁸ And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

⁹ Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.

⁹ For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.

¹⁰ But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.

¹¹ But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.

¹² It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need.

¹³ I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.

¹⁴ But you did well to have care for me in my need.

¹⁵ And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;

¹⁶ Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.

¹³ For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.

¹⁴ This is now the third time that I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a trouble to you: my desire is for you, not for your property: for it is not the children's business to make store for their fathers, but the fathers for the children.

¹⁵ And I will gladly give all I have for your souls. If I have the more love for you, am I to be loved the less?

¹⁶ But let it be so, that I was not a trouble to you myself; but (someone may say) being false, I took you with deceit.

³⁷ They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

²⁵ But it seemed to me necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, who has taken part with me in the work and in the fight, and your servant, sent by you for help in my need;

¹² For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;

¹ And now we give you news, brothers, about the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia;

² How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.

⁴ But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,

³³ I have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing.

³ And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers.

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.