Philippians 4:11

I do not speak in respect to want: for I have learned, in whatever condition I am, to be content.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

In Context

10I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length your care for me has revived again; in this, indeed, you had me in mind, but you lacked opportunity.

12I know what it is to be in want, and what it is to have abundance. Everywhere and in all things, I have been fully instructed in being full and in being hungry, in having abundance and in being in want.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:31Therefore, be not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, what shall we drink? or, with what shall we be clothed?

1 Corinthians 4:11Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,

2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet, for your sakes, he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might become rich.

2 Corinthians 11:27in weariness and in toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

1 Timothy 6:6But godliness, with a contented disposition, is great gain.

Matthew Henry on Philippians 4:11-20

Kindness Acknowledged; Christian Contentment. ( a. d. 62.) 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. 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all… Read the whole commentary →

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