Philippians 4:11-13 – I Have Learned to Be Content in All States | KJV
Week 4 · Day 26-4 · 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 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 can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” — Philippians 4:11-13 KJV Philippians 4:13 is one of the most quoted verses in the New Testament — and one of the most frequently misapplied. Read in its proper context, it is not a general promise of unlimited human capability; it is a specific declaration about the supernatural ability to be content in any circumstance through the strength of Christ. The passage opens with a critical word: 'I have learned.' Contentment, for Paul, was not a natural gift or an inherited personality trait. It was a learned skill — acquired through experience, through trials, through the repeated discovery that Christ is sufficient in every ci...