12 And I can be [a]abased, and I can abound: everywhere in all things I am [b]instructed, both to be full, and to be hungry, and to abound, and to have want.

13 I am able to do all things through the help of Christ, which strengtheneth me.

14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate to mine affliction.

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 4:12 He useth a general word, and yet he speaketh but of one kind of cross, which is poverty, for commonly poverty bringeth all kinds of discommodity with it.
  2. Philippians 4:12 This is a metaphor taken from holy things or sacrifices, for our life is like a sacrifice.

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