KJV King James Version
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand.
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Philippians 4:5
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
WEB World English Bible
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
ASV American Standard Version
Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord is near;
Surrounding context — Philippians 4
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 unto all men. The Lord [is] at hand.
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things.
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James 5:8-9Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.Matthew 6:25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?Titus 3:2To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, [but] gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.Hebrews 10:37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.Revelation 22:7Behold, I come quickly: blessed [is] he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.Hebrews 10:25Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.1 Corinthians 6:7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded?2 Peter 3:8-14But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.1 Corinthians 8:13Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.Hebrews 13:5-6[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.Luke 12:22-30And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.Luke 6:29-35And unto him that smiteth thee on the [one] cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not [to take thy] coat also.Matthew 6:34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.Matthew 24:48-50But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;Matthew 5:39-42But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares.Revelation 22:20He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
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