This translation is from the New American Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Greek meaning of what seems to be the key word is provided in blue immediately below the scriptural text. Scriptures addressing similar principles are collected after the text of this reading.
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I do not say this because I have lacked anything; I have learnt to manage with whatever I have. 12I know how to live modestly, and I know how to live luxuriously too: in every way now I have mastered the secret of all conditions: full stomach and empty stomach, plenty and poverty. 13There is nothing I cannot do in the One who strengthens me.
manage = αὐτάρκης = autarkēs Blue Letter Bible self-sufficient, adequate, needing no assistance; sufficient for one's self, strong enough or possessing enough to need no aid or support; independent of external circumstances; contented with one's lot, with one's means, though the slenderest; self-complacent; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon sufficient in oneself, self-supporting, independent of others; helping itself, acting instinctively; strong enough; able of oneself; sufficient
Scriptures addressing similar concepts:
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it.
17Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.
Whether little or much, be content with what you have: then you will hear no reproach as a parasite.
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, ‘I will never leave you or forsake you.’
Of course, there is great gain in godliness combined with contentment; 7for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it; 8but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.
See also Wisdom Principles—Rely on God, not Material Power or Wealth
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