Philippians 4:11

But I have not spoken because I have had need; for I have learned to make sufficient to me that which I have had.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

10But greatly do I rejoice in our Lord, that you have begun to care (again) for me, as also you were careful, but you have not had ability.

12I know (how) to be abased, I know also how to abound in all; and in every thing I am trained with sufficiency and with hunger, with abundance and with destitution:

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Cross References

Matthew 6:31Be not anxious, therefore, nor say, What shall we eat, or, What shall we drink, or, How shall we be covered?

1 Corinthians 4:11Until this hour we hunger and thirst, we are naked and beaten and have no fixed dwelling;

2 Corinthians 8:9FOR you know the beneficence of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, that for your sake he became poor, though he was rich, that you through his poverty might be enriched.

2 Corinthians 11:27in labour and weariness, in much watching, in hunger and thirst, in much fasting, in cold and in nakedness;

1 Timothy 6:6But thou, remove thyself from them. For our gain is great which is the fear of Aloha, with the use of our sufficiency.

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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