16For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
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For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
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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