KJV King James Version
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Philippians 4:11
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I am not saying this out of need, for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances.
WEB World English Bible
Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
ASV American Standard Version
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am—to be content;
Surrounding context — Philippians 4
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
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 things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
οὐχG3756 · ounoὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatκαθ᾽G2596 · kataaccording toὑστέρησινG5304 · husterēsispovertyλέγω·G3004 · legōto sayἐγὼG1473 · egōI/weγὰρG1063 · garforἔμαθονG3129 · manthanōto learnἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongοἷςG3739 · hos, hēwhichεἰμιG1510 · eimito beαὐτάρκηςG842 · autarkēsself-sufficientεἶναι.G1511 · einaito exist
Cross-references
1 Timothy 6:6-9But godliness with contentment is great gain.Hebrews 13:5-6[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.Matthew 6:31-34Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?2 Corinthians 9:8And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:Philippians 3:8Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ,2 Corinthians 6:10As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.2 Corinthians 8:9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.1 Corinthians 4:11-12Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;Hebrews 10:34For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.2 Corinthians 11:27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.Luke 3:14And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse [any] falsely; and be content with your wages.Genesis 28:20And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,Exodus 2:21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
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