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Philippians 4:12

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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.

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Philippians 4:12 in other translations

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.

Philippians 4:12 · American Standard Version

Philippians 4:12 in context

  1. 10But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.
  2. 11Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
  3. 12I 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.
  4. 13I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
  5. 14However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

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