Philippians 4:15

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Now 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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  • Phil 1:5 : 5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
  • 2 Cor 11:8-9 : 8 I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service. 9 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]. 10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
  • 2 Cor 12:11-15 : 11 ¶ 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. 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. 13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
  • 2 Kgs 5:16 : 16 But he said, [As] the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take [it]; but he refused.
  • 2 Kgs 5:20 : 20 ¶ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, [as] the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
  • Acts 16:40-17:5 : 40 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. 1 ¶ Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: 2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures, 3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. 4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few. 5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Phil 4:14
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    14Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

  • Phil 4:16-18
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    82%

    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.

  • Phil 1:4-5
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    4Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

    5For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

  • 2 Cor 11:8-9
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    8I robbed other churches, taking wages [of them], to do you service.

    9And 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].

  • Phil 4:10
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    10¶ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

  • Acts 20:34-35
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    34Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

    35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‹It is more blessed to give than to receive.›

  • Phil 1:7
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    7¶ Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

  • 2 Cor 1:14-16
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    72%

    14As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

    15¶ And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

    16And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

  • 2 Cor 8:1
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    1¶ Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

  • Gal 4:13
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    13Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

  • 2 Cor 8:4
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    4Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and [take upon us] the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

  • 1 Thess 1:6-8
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    6¶ And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

    7So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

    8For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

  • Acts 16:12
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    12And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, [and] a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.

  • Phil 1:26-27
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    71%

    26That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

    27¶ Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

  • Phil 2:18
    71%

    18For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

  • 2 Cor 9:4-5
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    4Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

    5Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] covetousness.

  • 2 Cor 1:11
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    11Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift [bestowed] upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

  • 1 Cor 16:1
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    1¶ Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

  • 2 Cor 12:13
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    13For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except [it be] that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

  • 2 Cor 8:19
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    19And not [that] only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and [declaration of] your ready mind:

  • Phlm 1:6-7
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    69%

    6That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

    7For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

  • Phil 2:20
    69%

    20For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

  • 1 Thess 2:1
    69%

    1¶ For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

  • Gal 4:15
    69%

    15Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if [it had been] possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

  • Phlm 1:15
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    15For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

  • 1 Thess 4:10
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    10And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

  • Rom 15:26
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    26For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.

  • Phil 1:1-2
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    1¶ Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

    2Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Eph 1:15
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    15¶ Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

  • Rom 1:12
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    12That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

  • 2 Cor 9:1
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    1¶ For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

  • 2 Cor 8:13
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    13For [I mean] not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

  • 1 Cor 16:3
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    3And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by [your] letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.

  • 3 John 1:7
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    7Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.

  • Col 1:24
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    24Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

  • Phil 1:30
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    30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear [to be] in me.

  • Col 1:4
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    4Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love [which ye have] to all the saints,