Various · CHAPTER 4.

Verse 19. 'But my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory, by (or in) Christ Jesus.'9 What they did thus, in their self-denying love, they might do fearlessly. For the living and true God, whose grace they knew, and whom Paul, in his fuller knowledge, calls emphatically his own, would amply recompense. They had filled this true minister of God with their willing and grateful kindness, and his God should fill them in return with the blessings of His goodness. It is a large promise and of a continuous fulfilment. Both here and hereafter the true need of God's children will be met by Him in faithfulness, according to the measure of His own fulness, both of grace and glory in Christ Jesus: Peace flowing like a river here below through hearts sore tried often by manifold temptations, and His own eternal kingdom and glory when the days of trial have their end.