Philippians 4:5

Believers should show gentleness to everyone, mindful that the Lord is near. Christ's nearness shapes gracious conduct.

Cross-references · 23

• Jas 5:8–9You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
• Matt 6:25Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
• Titus 3:2to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
• Heb 10:37“In a very little while, he who comes will come, and will not wait.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• Rev 22:7“Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”
• 1 Cor 6:7Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?
• Heb 10:25not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.
• 2 Pet 3:8–14But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
• 1 Cor 8:13Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
• Luke 6:29–35To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.
• Heb 13:5–6Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
• Luke 12:22–30He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
• Matt 6:34Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
• Matt 5:39–42But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
• Matt 24:48–50But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
• 1 Th 5:2–4For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
• Luke 21:34“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Rev 22:20He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I come quickly.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus.
• 1 Cor 7:29–31But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
• 1 Cor 9:25Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
• 1 Pet 1:11searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
• 2 Th 2:2not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

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