Paul's Gratitude and the Secret of Contentment

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Nowe I reioyce also in the Lord greatly, that nowe at the last your care for mee springeth afresh, wherein notwithstanding ye were careful, but yee lacked opportunitie.

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I speake not because of want: for I haue learned in whatsoeuer state I am, therewith to bee content.

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And I can be abased, and I can abounde: euery where in all things I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungrie, and to abounde, and to haue want.

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I am able to do al things through the helpe of Christ, which strengtheneth me.

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Notwithstanding yee haue well done, that yee did communicate to mine affliction.

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And yee Philippians knowe also that in the beginning of the Gospell, when I departed from Macedonia, no Church communicated with me, concerning the matter of giuing and receiuing, but yee onely.

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For euen when I was in Thessalonica, yee sent once, and afterward againe for my necessitie,

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Not that I desire a gift: but I desire the fruit which may further your reckoning.

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Now I haue receiued all, and haue plentie: I was euen filled, after that I had receiued of Epaphroditus that which came from you, an odour that smellleth sweete, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasant to God.

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And my God shall fulfill all your necessities through his riches with glorie in Iesus Christ.

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Vnto God euen our Father be praise for euermore, Amen.

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