Where is it in the Bible?
Philippians 4:13
13I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
In other translations
- ESV
- 13I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
- NLT
- 13For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.
- CSB
- 13I am able to do all things through him who strengthens me.
- KJV
- 13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
The surrounding passage
Philippians 4:11–15, King James Version
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.
Context
Paul writes to the church at Philippi while imprisoned, thanking them for a gift they had sent him. In the surrounding verses (4:10–14) he says he has learned to be content in every situation, whether well fed or hungry, in plenty or in need. The strength he speaks of is, first of all, the strength to be content in any circumstance.
About the book of Philippians
A joyful prison letter: rejoice in the Lord always.
Could you have named it from the verse alone? Try Bible Reference Quiz: read a verse, then name its book, chapter, and verse.
Take the quiz →