Philippians 4:11
Good News Translation
And I am not saying this because I feel neglected, for I have learned to be satisfied with what I have.

New Revised Standard Version
Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to be content with whatever I have.

Contemporary English Version
I am not complaining about having too little. I have learned to be satisfied with whatever I have.

New American Bible
Not that I say this because of need, for I have learned, in whatever situation I find myself, to be self-sufficient.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith.

in respect.

1 Corinthians 4:11,12 Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing: as needy, yet enriching many: as having nothing and possessing all things.

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

2 Corinthians 11:27 In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

I have.

Philippians 3:8 Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.

Genesis 28:20 And he made a vow, saying: If God shall be with me, and shall keep me in the way, by which I walk, and shall give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

Exodus 2:21 And Moses swore that he would dwell with him. And he took Sephora his daughter to wife:

Matthew 6:31-34 Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? . . .

Luke 3:14 And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do? And he said to them: Do violence to no man, neither calumniate any man; and be content with your pay.

1 Timothy 6:6-9 But godliness with contentment is great gain. . . .

Hebrews 10:34 For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

Hebrews 13:5,6 Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee. . . .

Context
The Generosity of the Philippians
10Now I rejoice in the Lord exceedingly that now at length your thought for me hath flourished again, as you did also think; but you were busied. 11I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith. 12I know both how to be brought low, 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.…
Cross References
Luke 3:14
And the soldiers also asked him, saying: And what shall we do? And he said to them: Do violence to no man, neither calumniate any man; and be content with your pay.

2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound in you: that ye always, having all sufficiently in all things, may abound to every good work,

1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.

1 Timothy 6:8
But having food and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content.

Hebrews 13:5
Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

Philippians 4:10
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