What Does Philippians 4:19 Mean in the King James?

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:19 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The verse measures provision by the giver’s fullness, not by the size of your need.

THE MEANING

The verse speaks to your need as something God fills, with its measure set by God’s riches in glory and its source named as Christ Jesus. Provision is pictured as filling, held within the weight of God’s presence.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie that your lack sets the limit of what can be given is undone here: the measure named is God’s riches.

THE ROOT

πληρώσει

plērōsei

GROWS FROM

πληρόω

plēroō

to fill; bring to fullness

The verb translated “supply” pictures a need being filled to fullness. It shares its root with Greek words for “full” and “fullness,” revealing provision as filling rather than a bare allotment.

ALSO GROWS

plērēs: full, complete

πλήρης

This branch shows the fullness carried in the verb translated “supply.”

plērōma: fullness, that which fills

πλήρωμα

This branch echoes the verse’s picture of need being filled.

πλούτῳ

ploutō

GROWS FROM

πλουτ-

plout-

wealth; abundance

The supply is measured according to the giver’s abundance. The verse places these riches “in glory”, in the weight of God’s presence.

ALSO GROWS

plousios: rich, wealthy

πλούσιος

This related word describes the abundance from which the verse says provision comes.

ploutizō: to enrich, make rich

πλουτίζω

This branch carries the same wealth-root into the act of making abundant.

THE PATTERN

Provision is measured by the fullness of the giver, not by the visible scale of the need.

A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Psalm 23:1 · KJVThe speaker’s lack is answered by the shepherd’s care.

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Matthew 6:26 · KJVThe Father’s provision reaches creatures that do not store up their own supply.

And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

2 Corinthians 9:8 · KJVGod’s abundant provision creates sufficiency that can overflow into action.

THE THREAD

And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Colossians 2:10 · KJV

“Complete” translates a form of ⁨πληρόω⁩ (plēroō), the same Greek root as “shall supply” here: both carry the image of being filled to fullness. Philippians speaks of every need being filled; Colossians names fullness in Christ as your present condition.

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