Philippians 4:16

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For even in Thessalonica you sent gifts for my need several times.

King James Version (1611)
For euen in Thessalonica, ye sent once, and againe vnto my necessitie.

King James Version
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

English Standard Version
Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again.

New American Standard Bible
for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.

New Century Version
Several times you sent me things I needed when I was in Thessalonica.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.

Legacy Standard Bible
For even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.

Berean Standard Bible
For even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs once and again.

Contemporary English Version
Even when I was in Thessalonica, you helped me more than once.

Complete Jewish Bible
Indeed, in Thessalonica when I needed it, you sent me aid twice.

Darby Translation
for also in Thessalonica once and even twice ye sent to me for my need.

Easy-to-Read Version
Several times you sent me things I needed when I was in Thessalonica.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For euen when I was in Thessalonica, yee sent once, and afterward againe for my necessitie,

George Lamsa Translation
For even at Thessalonica you sent more than once to meet my needs.

Good News Translation
More than once when I needed help in Thessalonica, you sent it to me.

Lexham English Bible
because even in Thessalonica on more than one occasion you sent for my need.

Literal Translation
Because truly in Thessalonica you sent to my need, both once and twice.

Amplified Bible
for even in Thessalonica you sent a gift more than once for my needs.

American Standard Version
for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need.

Bible in Basic English
Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.

Hebrew Names Version
For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

International Standard Version
Even while I was in Thessalonica, you provided for my needs not once, but twice.

Etheridge Translation
For also to Thessalonika one time and twice to my necessity you sent.

Murdock Translation
that also at Thessalonica, once and again ye sent me relief.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For euen in Thessalonica, ye sent once, & afterward agayne vnto my necessitie.

English Revised Version
for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need.

World English Bible
For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my necessities.

Weymouth's New Testament
because even in Thessalonica you sent several times to minister to my needs.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whiche senten to Tessalonyk onys and twies also in to vss to me.

Update Bible Version
for even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need.

Webster's Bible Translation
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again to my necessity.

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

New King James Version
For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and again for my necessities.

New Living Translation
Even when I was in Thessalonica you sent help more than once.

New Life Bible
Even while I was in the city of Thessalonica you helped me more than once.

New Revised Standard
For even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me help for my needs more than once.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That, even in Thessalonica, both once and again, unto my need, ye sent: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
For unto Thessalonica also you sent once and again for my use.

Revised Standard Version
for even in Thessaloni'ca you sent me help once and again.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For when I was in Tessalonica ye sent once and afterwarde agayne vnto my nedes:

Young's Literal Translation
because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For vnto Tessalonica ye sent once and afterwarde agayne vnto my necessite.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for you sent more than once to Thessalonica to supply my occasions.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Even when I was in Thessalonica, y'all sent me some money as I gathered the lost and brought back those who'd strayed away.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰I'm glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess—happy that you're again showing such strong concern for me. Not that you ever quit praying and thinking about me. You just had no chance to show it. Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. I don't mean that your help didn't mean a lot to me—it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles. ¹⁵You Philippians well know, and you can be sure I'll never forget it, that when I first left Macedonia province, venturing out with the Message, not one church helped out in the give-and-take of this work except you. You were the only one. Even while I was in Thessalonica, you helped out—and not only once, but twice. Not that I'm looking for handouts, but I do want you to experience the blessing that issues from generosity. ¹⁸And now I have it all—and keep getting more! The gifts you sent with Epaphroditus were more than enough, like a sweet-smelling sacrifice roasting on the altar, filling the air with fragrance, pleasing God no end. You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, his generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus. Our God and Father abounds in glory that just pours out into eternity. Yes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in: 1 Thessalonians 2:9

once: 1 Thessalonians 2:18

Reciprocal: Acts 17:1 - Thessalonica 2 Corinthians 11:9 - the brethren Hebrews 6:10 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 3:8
When they heard the sound of God strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from God.

Exodus 20:18
All the people, experiencing the thunder and lightning, the trumpet blast and the smoking mountain, were afraid—they pulled back and stood at a distance. They said to Moses, "You speak to us and we'll listen, but don't have God speak to us or we'll die."

2 Kings 24:20
The source of all this doom to Jerusalem and Judah was God 's anger— God turned his back on them as an act of judgment. And then Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon.

Job 1:12
God replied, "We'll see. Go ahead—do what you want with all that is his. Just don't hurt him." Then Satan left the presence of God .

Job 2:7
Satan left God and struck Job with terrible sores. Job was ulcers and scabs from head to foot. They itched and oozed so badly that he took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself, then went and sat on a trash heap, among the ashes.

Psalms 5:11
But you'll welcome us with open arms when we run for cover to you. Let the party last all night! Stand guard over our celebration. You are famous, God , for welcoming God-seekers, for decking us out in delight.

Jeremiah 23:39
"Are you paying attention? You'd better, because I'm about to take you in hand and throw you to the ground, you and this entire city that I gave to your ancestors. I've had it with the lot of you. You're never going to live this down. You're going down in history as a disgrace."

Jeremiah 52:3
The source of all this doom to Jerusalem and Judah was God 's anger. God turned his back on them as an act of judgment. Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar set out for Jerusalem with a full army. He set up camp and sealed off the city by building siege mounds around it. He arrived on the ninth year and tenth month of Zedekiah's reign. The city was under siege for nineteen months (until the eleventh year of Zedekiah).

Luke 13:26
"You'll protest, ‘But we've known you all our lives!' only to be interrupted with his abrupt, ‘Your kind of knowing can hardly be called knowing. You don't know the first thing about me.'

John 1:3
Everything was created through him; nothing—not one thing!— came into being without him. What came into existence was Life, and the Life was Light to live by. The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn't put it out.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For even in Thessalonica,.... When the apostle was there; for from Philippi he went to Thessalonica; see Acts 17:1;

ye sent once and again unto my necessity; for his use and service, to support him while he was at that place, and relieve and assist him in his necessities; for the people at Thessalonica were either not able to communicate, or were not of a beneficent disposition, or the apostle did not care to be chargeable to them; and they seem many of them to have been idle and lazy, and therefore he wrought among them with his own hands to set them an example; and the Philippians hearing and knowing that this was the case, sent frequently, while he was here, some of the brethren with gifts unto him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For even in Thessalonica; - see the notes, Acts 17:1. Paul remained there long enough to establish a flourishing church. He met, indeed, with much opposition and persecution there; and, hence, it was necessary that his wants should be supplied by others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. For even in Thessalonica — While labouring to plant the Church there, he was supported partly by working with his hands, 1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-9; and partly by the contributions sent him from Philippi. Even the Thessalonians had contributed little to his maintenance: this is not spoken to their credit.