Philippians 4:11

Yet I say this, not because I was in want; for I have learned to make that satisfy me, which I have.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

10And I rejoice greatly in our Lord, that ye have again commenced caring for me; even as ye had before cared for me, but ye had not the opportunity.

12I know how to be depressed, and I also know how to abound in every thing; and in all things am I exercised, both in fullness and in famine, in abundance and in penury.

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Cross References

Matthew 6:31Therefore be not anxious; nor say, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink; or wherewith be clothed?

1 Corinthians 4:11Unto this hour, we hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no permanent home:

2 Corinthians 8:9For ye know the goodness of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who when he was rich, for your sakes became poor, that by his poverty ye might be made rich.

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

1 Timothy 6:6But great is our gain, which is the fear of God, with the use of our competence.

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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