15Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
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For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. …
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. …
And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
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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