Philippians 4:11

Not that I refer to lack, for I have learned, in whatever circumstances I am, to be tzufrieden (content). + 4:11 1Ti 6:6

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 had much simcha in Adoneinu that now at last you blossomed anew so as to think of me, for indeed you were thinking of me, but were lacking opportunity.

12I have da'as both to be humbled in anavah and I have da'as how to abound in everything. And in all things I have learned what is nistar (concealed, hidden, unseen), I have learned the secret of being filled and having hunger, of abounding and having lack.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:20And Ya'akov vowed a neder (vow), saying, If Elohim will be with me, and will be shomer over me in this derech (way, journey) that I go, and will give me lechem to eat, and beged (clothes) to put on,

Matthew 6:31Therefore, do not have a LEV ROGEZ, saying, What might we eat? or What might we drink? or With what might we clothe ourselves?

1 Corinthians 4:11Until the present sha'ah (hour) we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are beaten and homeless.

2 Corinthians 8:9For you have da'as of the Chen v'Chesed of Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, who, though being rich, for your sakes, he became poor, + 8:9 Mt 8:20; Pp 2:6-7 that you by Moshiachʼs oni (poverty) may become rich.

2 Corinthians 11:27In labor and toil, in watchings, often in famine and thirst, in tzomot often, in cold and nakedness; + 11:27 2C 6:5

1 Timothy 6:6But chasidus with tzufriedenkait (contentment) is great revach (gain, profit).

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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