Treasury of Scripture Knowledge I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound (every where and in all things I am instructed): both to be full and to be hungry: both to abound and to suffer need. how to be. 1 Corinthians 4:9-13 For I think that God hath set forth us apostles, the last, as it were men appointed to death. We are made a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men. . . . 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 But in all things let us exhibit ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulation, in necessities, in distresses, . . . 2 Corinthians 10:1,10 Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you. . . . 2 Corinthians 11:7,27 Or did I commit a fault, humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached unto you the Gospel of God freely? . . . 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. . . . I am. Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye. Nehemiah 9:20 And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst. Isaiah 8:11 For thus saith the Lord to me: As he hath taught me, with a strong arm, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying: Jeremiah 31:19 For after thou didst convert me, I did penance: and after thou didst shew unto me, I struck my thigh: I am confounded and ashamed, because I have borne the reproach of my youth. Matthew 11:29 Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls. Matthew 13:52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old. Ephesians 4:20,21 But you have not so learned Christ: . . . Context The Generosity of the Philippians…11I speak not as it were for want. For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, to be content therewith. 12I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound (every where and in all things I am instructed): both to be full and to be hungry: both to abound and to suffer need. 13I can do all things in him who strengtheneth me.… Cross References 1 Corinthians 4:11 Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode. 2 Corinthians 11:9 And, when I was present with you and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was wanting to me, the brethren supplied who came from Macedonia. And in all things I have kept myself from being burthensome to you: and so I will keep myself. 2 Corinthians 11:27 In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: Lexicon I knowοἶδα (oida) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular Strong's Greek 1492: To know, remember, appreciate. [how] to live humbly, ταπεινοῦσθαι (tapeinousthai) Verb - Present Infinitive Middle or Passive Strong's Greek 5013: To make or bring low, humble, humiliate; pass: To be humbled. From tapeinos; to depress; figuratively, to humiliate. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely. I know οἶδα (oida) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular Strong's Greek 1492: To know, remember, appreciate. [how] to abound. περισσεύειν (perisseuein) Verb - Present Infinitive Active Strong's Greek 4052: From perissos; to superabound, be in excess, be superfluous; also to cause to superabound or excel. I am accustomed μεμύημαι (memyēmai) Verb - Perfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Singular Strong's Greek 3453: To initiate, instruct; pass: To be disciplined, learn (a lesson). From the base of musterion; to initiate, i.e. to teach. to ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. any παντὶ (panti) Adjective - Dative Neuter Singular Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely. every situation— πᾶσιν (pasin) Adjective - Dative Neuter Plural Strong's Greek 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. to being filled χορτάζεσθαι (chortazesthai) Verb - Present Infinitive Middle or Passive Strong's Greek 5526: To feed, satisfy, fatten. From chortos; to fodder, i.e. to gorge. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely. being hungry, πεινᾶν (peinan) Verb - Present Infinitive Active Strong's Greek 3983: To be hungry, needy, desire earnestly. From the same as penes; to famish; figuratively, to crave. to having plenty περισσεύειν (perisseuein) Verb - Present Infinitive Active Strong's Greek 4052: From perissos; to superabound, be in excess, be superfluous; also to cause to superabound or excel. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely. having need. ὑστερεῖσθαι (hystereisthai) Verb - Present Infinitive Middle or Passive Strong's Greek 5302: From husteros; to be later, i.e. to be inferior; generally, to fall short. Additional Translations I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need. I know also how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In everything, and in all things, I have learned the secret also to be full and to hunger, also to abound and to be deficient. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 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. I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. In everything and in all things I am initiated both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer privation. 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. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I know both how to live in humble circumstances and how to live amid abundance. I am fully initiated into all the mysteries both of fulness and of hunger, of abundance and of want. I know how to be humbled, and I know also 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. I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. 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