Philippians 4:11

I speake not because of necessitie. For I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content.

Tyndale 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 reioyse in the lorde greatly that now at the last ye are revived agayne to care for me in that wherein ye were also carefull but ye lacked oportunite.

12I can both cast doune my silfe I can also excede. Every where and in all thynges I am instructed both to be full and to be hongry: to have plenty and to suffre nede.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:31Therfore take no thought sayinge: what shall we eate or what shall we drincke or wherwith shall we be clothed?

1 Corinthians 4:11Even vnto this daye we honger and thyrst and are naked and are boffetted with fistes and have no certayne dwellinge place

2 Corinthians 8:9Ye knowe the liberalitie of oure lorde Iesus Christ which though he were riche yet for youre sakes be came poore: that ye thorow his povertie myght be made ryche.

2 Corinthians 11:27in laboure and travayle in watchynge often in honger in thirst in fastynges often in colde and in nakednes.

1 Timothy 6:6Godlines is great ryches yf a man be content with that he hath.

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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