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The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9 · New King James Version
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  • WEB The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
  • KJV Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
  • BSB Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me, put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
  • NASB As for the things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
  • NLT Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.

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Quick answer

Believers are to practice what they learned and saw in Paul, with the promise that the God of peace will be with them. Right thinking must issue in right doing.

Overview

Paul moves from contemplation (4:8) to action, calling the Philippians to put into practice the gospel pattern modeled in his teaching and life. The promise is not merely the peace of God (4:7) but the God of peace himself present with them. Obedient discipleship enjoys the nearness of God, the deepest blessing of all.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 34

  • Jas 1:22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
  • Phil 3:17Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
  • 1 Th 4:1–8Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
  • 2 Pet 1:10Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.
  • John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
  • Rom 16:20And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
  • Phil 4:7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
  • Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
  • 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
  • Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
  • 2 Th 3:4We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
  • Luke 6:46“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?
  • Luke 8:21But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God, and do it.”
  • John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Whatever he says to you, do it.”
  • 2 Cor 5:19–20namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
  • 1 Th 1:6You became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,
  • Matt 5:19–20Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • 1 Th 2:14For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;
  • 1 Th 5:23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Rom 15:33Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
  • 1 Cor 10:31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
  • 2 Th 3:6–10Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
  • Matt 7:24–27“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
  • 1 Th 2:2–12but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
  • Deut 5:1Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
  • Acts 9:6But rise up, and enter into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
  • John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
  • Isa 41:10Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
  • 1 Cor 14:33for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
  • 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
  • 1 Jn 3:22and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
  • Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
  • Isa 8:10Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us.”

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The one who, being in the form of God, emptied himself to the point of death on a cross and was exalted to the name above every name — the joy and prize of the believer.

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