10. Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly, because finally, after some time, your feelings for me have flourished again, just as you formerly felt. For you had been preoccupied.
11. I am not saying this as if out of need. For I have learned that, in whatever state I am, it is sufficient.
12. I know how to be humbled, and I know how to abound. I am prepared for anything, anywhere: either to be full or to be hungry, either to have abundance or to endure scarcity.
13. Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
14. Yet truly, you have done well by sharing in my tribulation.
15. But you also know, O Philippians, that at the beginning of the Gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not a single church shared with me in the plan of giving and receiving, except you alone.
16. For you even sent to Thessalonica, once, and then a second time, for what was useful to me.
17. It is not that I am seeking a gift. Instead, I seek the fruit that abounds to your benefit.