Philippians 4:11
I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 28:20And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
Matthew 6:31Be not solicitous therefore, saying, What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed?
1 Corinthians 4:11Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;
2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor, for your sakes; that through his poverty you might be rich.
2 Corinthians 11:27In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
1 Timothy 6:6But godliness with contentment 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 →