Philippians 4:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For I have received everything, and I have plenty. I have all I need because I received from Epaphroditus what you sent– a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, very pleasing to God.

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  • Phil 4:12 : 12 I have experienced times of need and times of abundance. In any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of contentment, whether I go satisfied or hungry, have plenty or nothing.
  • Heb 13:16 : 16 And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.
  • 2 Cor 9:12 : 12 because the service of this ministry is not only providing for the needs of the saints but is also overflowing with many thanks to God.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • Phil 2:25-26 : 25 But for now I have considered it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you. For he is my brother, coworker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to me in my need. 26 Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.
  • John 12:3-8 : 3 Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair.(Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.) 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples(the one who was going to betray him) said, 5 “Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?” 6 (Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.) 7 So Jesus said,“Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial. 8 For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Consecration of the Believer’s Life Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice– alive, holy, and pleasing to God– which is your reasonable service.
  • 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 Apostolic Ministry But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place. 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing– 16 to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 Thanksgiving We ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith flourishes more and more and the love of each one of you all for one another is ever greater.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 19 And my God will supply your every need according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.

  • Phil 4:9-17
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    9 And what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.

    10 Appreciation for Support I have great joy in the Lord because now at last you have again expressed your concern for me.(Now I know you were concerned before but had no opportunity to do anything.)

    11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content in any circumstance.

    12 I have experienced times of need and times of abundance. In any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of contentment, whether I go satisfied or hungry, have plenty or nothing.

    13 I am able to do all things through the one who strengthens me.

    14 Nevertheless, you did well to share with me in my trouble.

    15 And as you Philippians know, at the beginning of my gospel ministry, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in this matter of giving and receiving except you alone.

    16 For even in Thessalonica on more than one occasion you sent something for my need.

    17 I do not say this because I am seeking a gift. Rather, I seek the credit that abounds to your account.

  • 8 And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.

  • Phil 1:18-19
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    18 What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed, and in this I rejoice.Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

    19 for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

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    11 You will be enriched in every way so that you may be generous on every occasion, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God,

    12 because the service of this ministry is not only providing for the needs of the saints but is also overflowing with many thanks to God.

    13 Through the evidence of this service they will glorify God because of your obedience to your confession in the gospel of Christ and the generosity of your sharing with them and with everyone.

  • Phil 2:17-18
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    17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

    18 And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:8-9
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    8 I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so that I could serve you!

    9 When I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

  • Phil 1:11-12
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    11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

    12 Ministry as a Prisoner I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:

  • 25 But for now I have considered it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you. For he is my brother, coworker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to me in my need.

  • 15 For all these things are for your sake, so that the grace that is including more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God.

  • Phil 1:3-4
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    3 Prayer for the Church I thank my God every time I remember you.

    4 I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you

  • 17 So I boast in Christ Jesus about the things that pertain to God.

  • 16 I rejoice because in everything I am fully confident in you.

  • 7 For it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace together with me.

  • 29 and I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of Christ’s blessing.

  • 26 so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

  • 30 since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

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    4 Thanksgiving I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

    5 For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge–

  • 4 A Letter That Caused Sadness I have great confidence in you; I take great pride on your behalf. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in the midst of all our suffering.

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    14 At the present time, your abundance will meet their need, so that one day their abundance may also meet your need, and thus there may be equality,

    15 as it is written:“The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

  • 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body– for the sake of his body, the church– what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

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    21 Since I was confident that you would obey, I wrote to you, because I knew that you would do even more than what I am asking you to do.

    22 At the same time also, prepare a place for me to stay, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given back to you.

  • 17 I was glad about the arrival of Stephanus, Fortunatus, and Achaicus because they have supplied the fellowship with you that I lacked.

  • 8 But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that.

  • 12 Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

  • 10 as sorrowful, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

  • 9 And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight

  • 8 Paul’s Request for Onesimus So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,

  • 14 Apostolic Ministry But thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and who makes known through us the fragrance that consists of the knowledge of him in every place.

  • 6 Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.

  • 8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,

  • 15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?