Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Philippians 2:14

“Do all things without murmurings and disputings:”

Philippians 2:14 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Philippians 2:14, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Philippians 2. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 Peter 4:9Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
  • James 5:9Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
  • Ephesians 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
  • Philippians 2:3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
  • Romans 12:18If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
  • Exodus 16:7And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD; for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:15See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
  • James 3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
  • James 1:20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
  • Galatians 5:26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
  • Galatians 5:15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
  • Proverbs 15:17Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
  • Romans 14:1Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

More to meet God in Philippians

Philippians 4:13Philippians 1:6Philippians 4:7Philippians 4:19Philippians 4:8Philippians 4:6Philippians 3:9Philippians 3:19Philippians 1:27Philippians 3:8Philippians 3:1Philippians 1:10Philippians 2:9Philippians 2:12

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.