Philippians 4:5

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Philippians 4:5

Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

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Matthew 24:44

Bible References

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But I tell you not to resist a wicked man, but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

For 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?

To him who gives you a blow on one side of the face offer the other side also; and to him who is robbing you of your outer garment refuse not the under one also.

Then 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.'

"But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;

To 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?

Yet of this I warn you, brethren: the time has been shortened--so that henceforth those who have wives should be as though they had none,

Therefore 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.

But every competitor in an athletic contest practices abstemiousness in all directions. They indeed do this for the sake of securing a perishable wreath, but we for the sake of securing one that will not perish.

not speak evil of any one, nor be contentious, but yield unselfishly to others and constantly manifest a forgiving spirit towards all men.

Your lives should be untainted by love for money. Be content with what you have; for God Himself has said, "I will never, never let go your hand: I will never never forsake you."

They were eager to know the time which the Spirit of Christ within them kept indicating, or the characteristics of that time, when they solemnly made known beforehand the sufferings that were to come upon Christ and the glories which would follow.

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But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, 'My master is a long time in coming,'

For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

not readily to become unsettled in mind or troubled--either by any pretended spiritual revelation or by any message or letter claiming to have been sent by us--through fancying that the day of the Lord is now here.

not neglecting--as some habitually do--to meet together, but encouraging one another, and doing this all the more since you can see the day of Christ approaching.

So you also must be patient: keeping up your courage; for the Coming of the Lord is now close at hand.

But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.

But there is one thing, dear friends, which you must not forget. With the Lord one day resembles a thousand years and a thousand years resemble one day.

I am coming quickly.' Blessed is he who is mindful of the predictions contained in this book."

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Therefore you also must be ready; for it is at a time when you do not expect Him that the Son of Man will come.