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Philippians 4:13 KJV
Philippians · chapter 4 · verse 13
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.Philippians 4:13 · King James Version
What Philippians 4:13 means
Paul wrote this from a jail cell, in a paragraph about learning to be content. He'd been full and he'd been hungry, and he says he learned it in both. The verse isn't a promise that you'll win. It's a promise that Christ will hold you steady either way.
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Philippians 4:13 in context
11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12I 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.
13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
14Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
15Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
Commentary
Cross references
- Isaiah 41:10
- 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
- Colossians 1:11
- Ephesians 6:10
- Isaiah 40:29-31
- Ephesians 3:16
- John 15:7
- 2 Corinthians 3:4-5
Key words (Strong's)
- strengthenethendynamoōto be strong, endue with strength, strengthen, to receive strength, be strengthened…G1743 →
- throughenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-19