Philippians 4:12

I 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.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

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

13I can do all things in the One giving me ko'ach.

Read all of Philippians 4

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:20Thou gavest also Thy Ruach HaTovah to instruct them, and withheldest not Thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them mayim for their thirst.

Jeremiah 31:19Is Ephrayim My ben yakir (dear son)? 1 Is he a yeled in whom I delight? 1 For though I spoke rebuke of him, 1 I do earnestly remember him still; 1 therefore My heart yearns for him; 1 I will surely have rachamim (mercy) upon him, saith Hashem. 1

Matthew 13:52So Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, Therefore, every sofer (scribe, torah teacher, rabbi) who becomes a talmid of the Malchut HaShomayim is like a man + 13:52 who is a Baal Bayit, who takes out of his otzar (treasure), chadashot (new things) and also yeshanot (old things).

2 Corinthians 6:4But in everything presenting ourselves + 6:4 2C 4:2 as Klei Kodesh of Hashem in much savlanut (patience), in tzoros, in hardships, in distresses,

2 Corinthians 10:10For they say, “His iggrot indeed are weighty and strong but his physical presence is weak and his shprach (diction), as far as rhetoric is concerned, is despicable.”

2 Corinthians 11:9And when I was present with you and I had lack, I did not burden anyone, + 11:9 2C 12:13 for my lack was made up by the Achim b'Moshiach who came from Macedonia. So I was shomer not to make myself a burden to you and in that I will remain shomer.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Philippians 4:12