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Philippians 4:11

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

KJV

οὐχ ὅτι καθ’ ὑστέρησιν λέγω, ἐγὼ γὰρ ἔμαθον ἐν οἷς εἰμι αὐτάρκης εἶναι.

Greek NT

Non quasi propter penuriam dico : ego enim didici, in quibus sum, sufficiens esse.

Vulgate

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτάρκης
autarkes
adjective · 1×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μανθάνω
manthano
verb · 25×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑστέρησις
usteresis
noun · 2×

Doctrines that cite this verse

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Having manifested what he was and what he is, he shows the great fruit of his confession; and being about to examine by what method God and the happy life may be found, he enlarges on the nature and power of memory. Then he examines his own acts, thoughts and affections, viewed under the threefold division of temptation; and commemorates the Lord, the one mediator of God and me…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:11 — Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
  • 1Tim 6:6 — But godliness with contentment is great gain.
  • 1Tim 6:6 — But godliness with contentment is great gain.
  • 2Cor 6:4 — But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
  • 2Cor 6:10 — As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
  • 2Cor 8:9 — For 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.
  • 2Cor 9:8 — And 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:
  • 2Cor 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • Acts 28:10 — Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.
  • Esth 5:13 — Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
  • Exod 2:21 — And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
  • Exod 2:21 — And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
  • Gen 28:20 — And 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,
  • Heb 10:34 — For 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.
  • Heb 13:5 — 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.
  • Heb 13:5 — 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.
  • John 21:5 — Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
  • Luke 3:14 — And 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.
  • Luke 3:14 — And 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.
  • Matt 6:31 — Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
  • Phil 3:8 — Yea 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
  • Phil 3:13 — Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
  • Phil 4:17 — Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
  • Prov 19:23 — The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
  • Rom 12:16 — Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.