Philippians 4:5
Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
BSB
ASV
Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
KJV
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your moderation be known unto all men,.... The Vulgate Latin reads, "your modesty". The Syriac and Arabic versions, "your meekness", or "humility"; graces which accompany moderation, and are very necessary to it, but not that itself.
Those of the roughest tempers are good natured to some, from natural sympathy and various motives; a Christian, to all. The Lord - The judge, the rewarder, the avenger. Is at hand - Standeth at the door.
Let your moderation be known unto all men - That is, let it be such that others may see it. This does not mean that they were to make an ostentatious display of it, but that it should be such a characteristic of their lives that it would be constantly visible to others. The word “moderation” - ἐπιεικὲς epieikes - refers to restraint on the passions, general soberness of living, being free from all excesses.
Exercise "forbearance" even to your persecutors. None is so ungracious as not to be kindly to someone, from some motive or another, on some occasion; the believer is to be so "unto all men" at all times. The Lord is at hand--The Lord's coming again speedily is the grand motive to every Christian grace (Jas 5:8, 9).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more…
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Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
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1 Peter 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
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You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Hebrews 10:37For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.
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Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.