the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Philippians 4:5
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Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
Always be gentle with others. The Lord will soon be here.
Let everyone see how reasonable and gentle you are. The Lord is near!
Let your gentleness be known of all men. The Lord [is] near.
Let everyone see that you are gentle and kind. The Lord is coming soon.
Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.
Let your patient minde be knowen vnto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your humility be known to all men. Our LORD is at hand.
Let your mildness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your forbearing spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near:2 Thessalonians 2:2; Hebrews 10:25; James 5:8-9; 1 Peter 4:7; 2 Peter 3:8-9;">[xr]
And let your meekness be known unto every man: our Lord is near.
Let your humility be recognized among all men. Our Lord is near.
Show a gentle attitude toward everyone. The Lord is coming soon.
Let your graciousness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
Let your moderation be knowen vnto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your gentle spirit [your graciousness, unselfishness, mercy, tolerance, and patience] be known to all people. The Lord is near.
Let your forbearance be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord [is] at hand.
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your gentleness be made known to all people. The Lord is near.
Let your reasonableness be known to all men. The Lord is near.
Let your gentle spirit be known to all people. The Lord is near.
Let everyone see that you are gentle and kind. The Lord is coming soon.
Let everyone see your gentleness. The Lord is near!
Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your mildness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your gentleness be known to all men; the Lord is at hand.
Let your forbearing spirit be known to every one--the Lord is near.
Be youre pacyence knowun to alle men; the Lord is niy.
Let all people see how gentle you are. The Lord is coming again soon.
Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.
Let, your considerateness, be known unto all men. The Lord, is near: -
Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.
Let youre softenes be knowen vnto all men. The lorde is even at honde.
let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord [is] near;
Let youre softnes be knowne vnto all men. The LORDE is euen at honde.
let your meekness be known unto all men.
Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near.
Let your pacient mynde be knowen vnto all men: The Lorde [is] at hande.
Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;
Let everyone see that you are considerate in all you do. Remember, the Lord is coming soon.
Show kindness wherever you go. Remember, the Lord is coming back soon.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
your: Matthew 5:39-42, Matthew 6:25, Matthew 6:34, Luke 6:29-35, Luke 12:22-30, Luke 21:34, 1 Corinthians 6:7, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31, 1 Corinthians 8:13, 1 Corinthians 9:25, Titus 3:2, Hebrews 13:5, Hebrews 13:6, 1 Peter 1:11
The: Matthew 24:48-50, 1 Thessalonians 5:2-4, 2 Thessalonians 2:2, Hebrews 10:25, James 5:8, James 5:9, 1 Peter 4:7, 2 Peter 3:8-14, Revelation 22:7, Revelation 22:20
Reciprocal: Genesis 23:13 - I will Leviticus 25:15 - General Ecclesiastes 3:22 - nothing Ezekiel 30:3 - the day is Ezekiel 36:8 - at hand Zephaniah 1:7 - for the day Zephaniah 1:14 - it is Matthew 24:44 - General 1 Corinthians 10:11 - upon 1 Thessalonians 5:6 - sober Revelation 3:11 - I come
Cross-References
And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.
and said to them, "I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.
And Moses was very angry, and said to the LORD, "Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one ass from them, and I have not harmed one of them."
Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
May he remember all your offerings, and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! [Selah]
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?'
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted what was spoken by Paul, and reviled him.
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he received approval as righteous, God bearing witness by accepting his gifts; he died, but through his faith he is still speaking.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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. The Ethiopic version renders it, "your authority", which by no means agrees; for moderation lies not in exerting authority and power to the uttermost, at least with rigour, but in showing clemency and lenity; not dealing with men according to the severity of laws and strict justice, but according to equity, and with mildness and gentleness; giving up strict and proper right, receding from what is a man's due, and not rigidly insisting on it; putting up with affronts and injuries, and bearing them with patience; and interpreting things in the best sense, and putting the best constructions on words and actions they will bear; and in using inferiors and equals with all humanity, kindness, and respect: and this is what is here intended, which the apostle would have made "known"; exercised and practised publicly, that it might be seen and known of all, and God might be glorified, by whose name they were called, though their agreeable conversation among men; see Matthew 5:16; and he would not only have this known unto, but exercised towards "all men"; not only to believers, the members of the church, by ruling with gentleness, by bearing the infirmities of the weak, and by forgiving offences; but also to unbelievers, to the men of the world, by not avenging themselves, but giving way to wrath; by patient suffering for well doing, without making any returns of ill, either by words or deeds: this is the moderation here meant, and not moderation in eating and drinking, and in apparel, and in the love and use of, and care for the things of this world; though such moderation highly becomes professors of religion; and much less moderation in religion, or towards the false teachers, thinking and speaking well of them; and interpreting their notions in the best sense, hoping they may mean otherwise than they say, and therefore should treat their persons with great respect, and their principles with tenderness; but this can never be thought to be the apostle's sense, after he had himself given them such names and characters, as in Philippians 3:2; and besides, though we may, and many times ought, as men and Christians, to give way, and yield up what is our right and due, for the sake of peace, yet we cannot, nor ought to give up anything, that of right belongs to God and Christ, in matters of doctrine or worship; nor in the least abate of our zeal for the same, or give way to false teachers in any respect, nor for any time: moreover, moderation in religion is nothing else but lukewarmness and indifference, than which nothing is more detestable, or abhorred by Christ. The argument or reason enforcing moderation in the above sense of it follows,
the Lord [is] at hand. The Syriac version reads, "our Lord": and the Ethiopic version, "God is at hand". The sense is, either the Lord is near, he is omnipresent, and sees and observes the conduct of his people, their deportment in the world, and to one another; and therefore, as in his presence, and under his eye, they should behave according to equity, and with kindness and tenderness towards their fellow creatures and fellow Christians: or the Lord is nigh unto them, as he is to all that call upon him in truth, Psalms 145:18; he is a present help in time of trouble, Psalms 46:1; he is in the midst of them, and will help, and that right early, Psalms 46:5; and will avenge his elect, and vindicate their cause, and right all their wrongs in his due time; and therefore they should take all things patiently, and not avenge themselves: or in a little while Christ will come to judgment, when he will plead the cause of his people, and convince ungodly sinners of their ungodly deeds, and hard speeches against him and his, Judges 1:15; and therefore they should leave all to that time, and commit themselves to him that judgeth righteously, 1 Peter 2:23.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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. The word properly means that which is fit or suitable, and then propriety, gentleness, mildness - They were to indulge in no excess of passion, or dress, or eating, or drinking. They were to govern their appetites, restrain their temper, and to be examples of what was proper for people in view of the expectation that the Lord would soon appear.
The Lord is at hand - Is near; see the Philippians 3:20 note; 1 Corinthians 16:22 note. This has the appearance of being a phrase in common use among the early Christians, and as being designed to keep before their minds a lively impression of an event which ought, by its anticipation, to produce an important effect. Whether, by this phrase, they commonly understood the coming of the Lord to destroy Jerusalem, or to remove them by death, or to judge the world, or to reign personally on the earth, it is impossible now to determine, and is not very material to a proper understanding of its use here. The idea is, that the expectation that the Lord Jesus will “come,” ought to be allowed to produce moderation of our passions, in our manner of living, in our expectations of what this world can furnish, and in our desires of earthly good. On him who feels that he is soon to die, and to stand at the bar of God - on him who expects soon to see the Lord Jesus coming in the clouds of heaven, it cannot fail to have this effect. People indulge their passions - are extravagant in their plans of life, and in their expectations of earthly good for themselves and for their families, because they have no realizing sense of the truth that there is before them a vast eternity. He that has a lively expectation that heaven will soon be his, will form very moderate expectations of what this world can furnish.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 5. Let your moderation be known — The word επιεικες is of very extensive signification; it means the same as επιεικεια, mildness, patience, yieldingness, gentleness, clemency, moderation, unwillingness to litigate or contend; but moderation is expressive enough as a general term. "Moderation," says Dr. Macknight, "means meekness under provocation, readiness to forgive injuries, equity in the management of business, candour in judging of the characters and actions of others, sweetness of disposition, and the entire government of the passions."
The Lord is at hand. — A phrase something similar to the Maranatha of 1 Corinthians 16:22: The Lord is Judge, and is at hand to punish. Schoettgen supposes, from this verse, taken in connection with the preceding, that Euodias and Syntyche were of a quarrelsome disposition; and hence the exhortation and threatening in the third and fifth verses.
