What does Philippians 4:19 mean?
And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
PHILIPPIANS 4:19 · BEREAN STANDARD BIBLE
“My God will supply all your needs” comes right after Paul thanks the Philippians for the gift they sent him. The commentators ask whether the promise is about money, about every need, or about what God has already shown in Christ.
Three commentaries, quoted, not summarized.
JAMIESON, FAUSSET & BROWN · 1871verified
my--Paul calls God here "my God," to imply that God would reward their bounty to HIS servant, by "fully supplying" (translate so, literally, fill to the full) their every "need" (Co2 9:8), even as they had "fully" supplied his "need" (Phi 4:16, Phi 4:18). My Master will fully repay you; I cannot. The Philippians invested their bounty well since it got them such a glorious return. according to his riches--The measure of His supply to you will be the immeasurable "riches of His grace" (Eph 1:7).…
MATTHEW HENRY · 1721verified
…He would recompense it: But my God shall supply all your wants according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus, Phi 4:19. He does as it were draw a bill upon the exchequer in heaven, and leaves it to God to make them amends for the kindness they had shown him. "He shall do it, not only as your God, but as my God, who takes what is done to me as done to himself. You supplied my needs, according to your poverty; and he shall supply yours, according to his riches." But still it is by Christ Jesus…
JOHN GILL · 1748verified
But my God shall supply all your need,.... Or "fulfil all your need": the Jews, when they would comfort any, under the loss of any worldly enjoyment, used to say, , "God fulfil", or "will fulfil thy need" (f). The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read these words as a wish or prayer, "but may my God supply" or "fulfil all your need"; I am not able to make you any returns, but I pray that my God would recompence it to you, that as you have supplied my want, he would supply all yours; but we with others…
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