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Philippians 4:12

American Standard Version

I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.

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Philippians 4:12 in other translations

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Philippians 4:12 · World English Bible

Philippians 4:12 in context

  1. 10But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.
  2. 11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.
  3. 12I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
  4. 13I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
  5. 14Howbeit ye did well that ye had fellowship with my affliction.

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