12I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. …
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)In these verses we have the thankful grateful acknowledgment which the apostle makes of the kindness of the Philippians in sending him a present for his support, now that he was a prisoner at Rome. And here, I. He takes occasion to acknowledge their former kindnesses to him, and to make mention of them, Phil. 4:15 , 16 . Paul had a grateful spirit; for, though what his friends did for him was noth…
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