Philippians 4:5
Let your forbearing spirit be known to every one--the Lord is near.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
In Context
4Always be glad in the Lord: I will repeat it, be glad.
Cross References
Matthew 6:25For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?
Matthew 24:48But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, `My master is a long time in coming,'
Luke 12:22Then turning to His disciples He said, "For this reason I say to you, `Dismiss all anxious care for your lives, inquiring what you are to eat, and for your bodies, what you are to put on.'
1 Corinthians 6:7To say no more, then, it is altogether a defect in you that you have law-suits with one another. Why not rather endure injustice? Why not rather submit to being defrauded?
1 Corinthians 8:13Therefore if what I eat causes my brother to fall, never again to the end of my days will I touch any kind of animal food, for fear I should cause my brother to fall.
1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
Matthew Henry on Philippians 4:2-10
Various Exhortations. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. 2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. 3 And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life. 4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. 5 Let your moderation be known… Read the whole commentary →