Philippians 4:5 meaning and explanation
Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
Philippians 4:5, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul writes from prison to the church at Philippi, urging a unity already strained by the disagreement between Euodia and Syntyche just mentioned. The word rendered gentleness, epieikes, carries the sense of forbearance or yielding, a fairness that does not insist on its rights.
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