11. I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith.
12. I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound: (everywhere, and in all things I am instructed) both to be full, and to be hungry; both to abound, and to suffer need.
13. I can do all these things in him who strengtheneth me.
14. Nevertheless you have done well in communicating to my tribulation.
15. And you also know, O Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only:
16. For unto Thessalonica also you sent once and again for my use.
17. Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that may abound to your account.
18. But I have all, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.