Philippians 4:11 Cross References - Moffatt

¹¹ Not that I complain of want, for I have learned how to be content wherever I am.

³¹ Do not be troubled, then, and cry, 'What are we to eat?' or 'what are we to drink?' or 'how are we to be clothed?' ³² (pagans make all that their aim in life) for your heavenly Father knows quite well you need all that. ³³ Seek God's Realm and his goodness, and all that will be yours over and above. ³⁴ So do not be troubled about to-morrow; to-morrow will take care of itself. The day's own trouble is quite enough for the day.

¹⁴ Soldiers also asked him, "And what are we to do?" He said to them, "Never extort money, never lay a false charge, but be content with your pay."

¹¹ To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs, ¹² we work hard for our living; when reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we put up with it;

¹⁰ grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.

⁹ (You know how gracious our Lord Jesus Christ was; rich though he was, he became poor for the sake of you, that by his poverty you might be rich.)

⁸ God is able to bless you with ample means, so that you may always have quite enough for any emergency of your own and ample besides for any kind act to others;

²⁷ through labour and hardship, through many a sleepless night, through hunger and thirst, starving many a time, cold and ill-clad, and all the rest of it.

⁸ indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ

⁶ And so it is — provided it goes with a contented spirit; ⁷ for we bring nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. ⁸ If we have food and clothes, we must be content with that. ⁹ Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction.

³⁴ for you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you took the confiscation of your own belongings cheerfully, conscious that elsewhere you had higher, you had lasting, possessions.

⁵ Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you. ⁶ So that we can say confidently, The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?