Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatever state I am, therewith to be content.… I knew a man that had both health and riches, and several houses all beautiful and ready finished; and would often trouble himself and family to be removing from one house to another; and being asked by a friend why, replied: "It was to find content in some one of them." But his friend, knowing his temper, told him if he would find content in any of his houses he must leave himself behind him; for content will never dwell but in a meek and quiet soul. And this may appear from the beatitude — "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth;" not that the meek shall not also obtain mercy, and see God, and be comforted, and at last obtain the kingdom of heaven; but in the meantime he, and he only, possesses the earth, as he travels towards that kingdom, by being humble and cheerful and content with what his good God has allotted him. (Izaak Walton.) Parallel Verses KJV: Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.WEB: Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. |
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