Philippians 4:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

How to be

2 Corinthians 12:7

I am

Ephesians 4:20

Bible References

How to be

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

but in everything commending ourselves as

servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?

Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!

I am

“He found him in a desert land,
And in the howling waste of a wilderness;
He encircled him, He cared for him,
He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

“You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
Your manna You did not withhold from their mouth,
And You gave them water for their thirst.

For thus the Lord spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

‘For after I turned back, I repented;
And after I was instructed, I smote on my thigh;
I was ashamed and also humiliated
Because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

And Jesus said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

But you did not learn Christ in this way,