11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But godliness with contentment is great gain. …
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. …
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? …
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:
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 Christ,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)In these verses we have the thankful grateful acknowledgment which the apostle makes of the kindness of the Philippians in sending him a present for his support, now that he was a prisoner at Rome. And here, I. He takes occasion to acknowledge their former kindnesses to him, and to make mention of them, Phil. 4:15 , 16 . Paul had a grateful spirit; for, though what his friends did for him was noth…
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