Philippians 4:9

Plain English Version

And remember, when I was with you, I taught you the right things to do. You agreed with me about those things. And you know the things that I said, and the things that I did when I was with you. Well, keep on doing all those things. Then God will be with you, and he will get you to feel happy and quiet inside yourselves.

Cross References

Matthew 1:23

“There will be a young woman that never slept with a man, like a woman does with her husband, but she will have a baby boy. That boy will have a special name, Immanuel. That name means God is with us.”

Matthew 28:20

You have to teach them to do everything that I told you to do. And remember this, I will be with you all the time. I will be with you to help you, right up until the time when this world will finish.”

Matthew 7:21

And Jesus said, “Lots of people call me, ‘My leader and my boss,’ but some of them will never be in God’s family. God will only have people that do what he wants them to do. God will have those people in his family, but not the other people. God is my father in heaven.

John 13:17

And I just showed you how to treat each other. So if you do that, God will make you happy.

John 15:14

Well, if you do what I tell you to do, you are my friends. I love my friends a lot, and I am ready to die to save you.

John 2:5

But his mother went to the workers there and said, “Do whatever he tells you to do.”

Acts 9:6

But get up and go into the city. Somebody there will tell you what to do.”

Romans 15:33

And now I ask God to be with all you mob. He can make us live happy together. Yes, that’s right.

Romans 16:20

You know, Satan, the boss over the bad spirits, he tries to get you to go wrong. But God is stronger than Satan. God is the one that makes us happy and quiet inside ourselves. And he will beat Satan, so that Satan can’t do anything to you any more. I ask our leader, Jesus, to be really good to you. (The next part, 16:21-24, says things for just some of the people at Rome at that time, so we have not translated it yet.)

1 Corinthians 10:31

Don’t think like that. You have to think like this, that we have to live in a way that shows everyone that God is great and God is good. So whatever you do, even when you eat and drink, do it the way God wants.

1 Corinthians 14:33

God wants you to respect each other and listen to each other. He doesn’t want your meetings to be mixed up and noisy. And now I’ll talk to you about another matter. This is what it’s like for God’s people in all the other churches.

1 Corinthians 4:16

So I’m asking you to live the way I live, and to do the same sorts of things that I do.

Philippians 3:17

My Christian friends, you know how I live, so you all have to try to live the same way. And look around at each other, and see the way you all live. Look at those people that live the same way as I live, and you do the same.

Philippians 4:7

Then God will get you to feel happy and quiet inside yourselves. You belong to Jesus Christ, and he will do that to look after your minds, so that you will think properly. Nobody knows how God does it, but he can do it.

1 Thessalonians 1:6

So you changed the way you live, and you lived the same way that we lived, like the way that Jesus, our leader, lived. You believed the message about Jesus, and the Holy Spirit made you really happy. Other people gave you a lot of trouble, but you were happy anyway.

1 Thessalonians 2:14

And, Christian friends, your countrymen gave you a lot of trouble after you believed in Jesus. You know, the same thing happened to the Christians in the churches in Judea country. They believed in Jesus, and their Jewish countrymen gave them a lot of trouble too.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

God is the one that helps people to be happy and quiet inside themselves. I want that for you, and I’m asking God himself to clean you properly inside, so that you will be his special people. I want God to help you be properly good in every way, with your body, and your spirit, and also that part inside you that thinks and that gives you your feelings. Yes, God can clean you and help you be properly good, so that at the time when our leader, Jesus Christ, comes back, God will not blame you for doing anything wrong.

2 Thessalonians 3:4

You see, God helps us know for sure about you. We reckon that you are doing the things that we told you to do, and we reckon that you will keep on doing them.

2 Timothy 4:22

That’s all. I pray that our leader, Jesus, will be with your spirit, and that he will be really good to you. From Paul

James 1:22

And don’t just listen to that word from God, but you have to do everything it says too. If you don’t do the things it says, you will just trick yourself.

2 Peter 1:10

My Christian friends, try hard to do all those good things. God picked you to be his own people, and whenever you do those good things, you show everybody that you really are God’s people. If you do those things, you will never turn away from God.