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Philippians 4:16 KJV
Philippians · chapter 4 · verse 16
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.Philippians 4:16 · King James Version
Philippians 4:16 in context
14Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
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.
16For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
17Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
18But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ThessalonicathessalonikēThessalonica = " victory of falsity" , a famous and populous city, situated on…G2332 →
- sentpempōto send, to bid a thing to be carried to one, to send a thing into anotherG3992 →
- oncekaiand, also, even, indeed, butG2532 →
- oncehapaxonce, one time, once for allG530 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-19