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New Living Translation

Philippians 2:14

Do everything without complaining and arguing,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Commandments;   Meekness;   Murmuring;   Resignation;   Strife;   Thompson Chain Reference - All Things;   Content-Discontent;   Murmuring;   Things, All;   The Topic Concordance - Children;   Light;   Murmuring;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Strife;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Philippians, letter to the;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blameless;   Immortality;   Thessalonians, First and Second, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Peter, the Epistles of;   Philippi;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Philippians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Doubt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ephesians Epistle to the;   Murmuring;   Unity (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 29 Light Lamp Candle;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Grudge;   Philippians, the Epistle to;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for May 21;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Do everything without grumbling and arguing,
King James Version (1611)
Doe all things without murmurings, and disputings:
King James Version
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
English Standard Version
Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
New American Standard Bible
Do all things without complaining or arguments;
New Century Version
Do everything without complaining or arguing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do all things without grumbling or disputing;
Legacy Standard Bible
Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
Berean Standard Bible
Do everything without complaining or arguing,
Contemporary English Version
Do everything without grumbling or arguing.
Complete Jewish Bible
Do everything without kvetching or arguing,
Darby Translation
Do all things without murmurings and reasonings,
Easy-to-Read Version
Do everything without complaining or arguing
Geneva Bible (1587)
Do all things without murmuring and reasonings,
George Lamsa Translation
Do all things without disputing, and doubting:
Good News Translation
Do everything without complaining or arguing,
Lexham English Bible
Do all things without grumbling and disputing,
Literal Translation
Do all things without murmurings and disputings,
Amplified Bible
Do everything without murmuring or questioning [the providence of God],
American Standard Version
Do all things without murmurings and questionings:
Bible in Basic English
Do all things without protests and arguments;
Hebrew Names Version
Do all things without murmurings and disputes,
International Standard Version
Do everything without complaining or arguingRomans 14:1; 1 Corinthians 10:10; 1 Peter 4:9;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Do every thing without murmuring and without division;
Murdock Translation
Do all things without murmuring, and without altercation;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Do all thyng without murmuryng and disputyng:
English Revised Version
Do all things without murmurings and disputings;
World English Bible
Do all things without murmurings and disputes,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Weymouth's New Testament
Be ever on your guard against a grudging and contentious spirit,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And do ye alle thingis with out grutchingis and doutyngis;
Update Bible Version
Do all things without murmurings and questionings:
Webster's Bible Translation
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
New English Translation
Do everything without grumbling or arguing,
New King James Version
Do all things without complaining and disputing,
New Life Bible
Be glad you can do the things you should be doing. Do all things without arguing and talking about how you wish you did not have to do them.
New Revised Standard
Do all things without murmuring and arguing,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All things, be doing, apart from murmurings and disputings;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations:
Revised Standard Version
Do all things without grumbling or questioning,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Do all thynge with out murmurynge and disputynge
Young's Literal Translation
All things do without murmurings and reasonings,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Do all thinges without murmurynges and disputinges,
Mace New Testament (1729)
do every thing without murmuring and disputes:
THE MESSAGE
Do everything readily and cheerfully—no bickering, no second-guessing allowed! Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God. Carry the light-giving Message into the night so I'll have good cause to be proud of you on the day that Christ returns. You'll be living proof that I didn't go to all this work for nothing.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Do everything without whining or bickering.

Contextual Overview

14 Do everything without complaining and arguing, 15 so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people. 16 Hold firmly to the word of life; then, on the day of Christ's return, I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and that my work was not useless. 17 But I will rejoice even if I lose my life, pouring it out like a liquid offering to God, just like your faithful service is an offering to God. And I want all of you to share that joy. 18 Yes, you should rejoice, and I will share your joy. 19 If the Lord Jesus is willing, I hope to send Timothy to you soon for a visit. Then he can cheer me up by telling me how you are getting along. 20 I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare. 21 All the others care only for themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ. 22 But you know how Timothy has proved himself. Like a son with his father, he has served with me in preaching the Good News. 23 I hope to send him to you just as soon as I find out what is going to happen to me here.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

without: Philippians 2:3, Exodus 16:7, Exodus 16:8, Numbers 14:27, Psalms 106:25, Matthew 20:11, Mark 14:5, Acts 6:1, 1 Corinthians 10:10, James 5:9, 1 Peter 4:9, Jude 1:16

disputings: Proverbs 13:10, Proverbs 15:17, Proverbs 15:18, Mark 9:33, Mark 9:34, Acts 15:2, Acts 15:7, Acts 15:39, Romans 12:18, Romans 14:1, Romans 16:17, 1 Corinthians 1:10-12, 1 Corinthians 3:3-5, 2 Corinthians 12:20, Galatians 5:15, Galatians 5:26, Ephesians 4:31, Ephesians 4:32, 1 Thessalonians 5:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:15, 1 Timothy 6:3-5, Hebrews 12:14, James 1:20, James 3:14-18, James 4:1, 1 Peter 3:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:7 - Canaanite Genesis 13:8 - Let Exodus 15:24 - General Numbers 12:2 - hath he not Isaiah 11:9 - not hurt Luke 9:46 - General John 7:12 - murmuring 1 Corinthians 1:11 - that there 1 Corinthians 6:6 - brother 1 Timothy 6:4 - words 2 Timothy 2:24 - must Titus 2:8 - having

Cross-References

Genesis 10:11
From there he expanded his territory to Assyria, building the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,
Genesis 10:22
The descendants of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 15:18
So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
Genesis 25:18
Ishmael's descendants occupied the region from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt in the direction of Asshur. There they lived in open hostility toward all their relatives.
Deuteronomy 1:7
It is time to break camp and move on. Go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the neighboring regions—the Jordan Valley, the hill country, the western foothills, the Negev, and the coastal plain. Go to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, and all the way to the great Euphrates River.
Deuteronomy 11:24
Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
Daniel 10:4
On April 23, as I was standing on the bank of the great Tigris River,
Revelation 9:14
And the voice said to the sixth angel who held the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Do all things,.... Not evil things, these are to be abhorred, shunned, and avoided, even all appearance of them, they are not to be done, even the sake of good; nor all indifferent things at all times, and under all circumstances, when the peace and edification of others are in danger of being hurt by so doing; but all good things, all that are agreeable to the righteous law and good will of God; all those good things which accompany salvation, as hearing the word, and attendance on ordinances: all church affairs relating to public worship, private conference, everything at church meetings, and which concern the discipline and laws of Christ's house; and all things that are civilly, morally, spiritually, and evangelically good; even all things that God would have done, or we would desire should be done to us by fellow creatures and fellow Christians: let all these be done

without murmurings; either against God and Christ, as if anything hard and severe was enjoined, when Christ's yoke is easy, and his burden light, Matthew 11:30, and none of his commands grievous; and because their presence is not always enjoyed, and that communion and comfort in ordinances had, which may be desired: or against the ministers of the Gospel, in whose power it is not to give grace, comfort, and spiritual refreshment; any more than it was in Moses and Aaron to give bread and water to the Israelites in the wilderness, for which they murmured against them, and in so doing against God himself, Exodus 16:2; or against one another, because of superior enjoyment in nature, providence, and grace; but all things, both of a moral, civil, and religious nature, with respect to God, and one another, should be done readily, freely, cheerfully, and heartily; and also without

disputings; or "without hesitations", as the Vulgate Latin, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions render it. Whatever appears to be agreeable to the will of God, should be done at once without dispute upon it, or hesitation about it, however disagreeable it may be to carnal sense and reason; the will of God is not to be disputed, nor flesh and blood to be consulted, in opposition to it; nor should the saints enter into any carnal reasonings, and contentious disputations, either at their public or private meetings, but do all they do decently, and in order, and in the exercise of brotherly love.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Do all things without murmurings and disputings - In a quiet, peaceful, inoffensive manner. Let there be no brawls, strifes, or contentions. The object of the apostle here is, probably, to illustrate the sentiment which he had expressed in Philippians 2:3-5, where he had inculcated the general duties of humbleness of mind, and of esteeming others better than themselves, in order that that spirit might be fully manifested, he now enjoins the duty of doing everything in a quiet and gentle manner, and of avoiding any species of strife; see the notes at Ephesians 4:31-32.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. Do all things without murmurings — γογγυσμων και διαλογισμων. Without grumblings and altercations. Be patient in, and contented with, your work; and see that ye fall not out by the way.


 
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