11I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith.


In Context

8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline, think on these things.

9 The things which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, these do ye, and the God of peace shall be with you.

10 Now 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.

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

12 I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound: (everywhere, 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 these things in him who strengtheneth me.

Philippians 4:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:11I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me I have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, with that to be content.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:11not that in respect of want I say it, for I did learn in the things in which I am — to be content;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.