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We will start with Phil 4:4 and finish the chapter.

v.  4  How do we rejoice always?

v. 5  What does gentleness mean?

v. 6-7  These two verses seem to mention things we are to do and things that God does, and the two work together.  What are we to do?

v. 8  How is this instruction to be used?  How can this instruction be misused?

v.  9  Here Paul refers to the “God of peace.”  How many times do we see “God of peace” in the New Testament?  What does peace mean here?  What is the Hebrew equivalent of the Greek word?

v. 10  Paul is rejoicing in the care by the brethren? Was this mental/sympathetic/emotional caring?  Or more? (consider v. 14-18 as well)

v. 11-13  What can be learned from Paul’s example?

v. 13  How can this verse be misapplied?

v.19-23  What are points we learn from example in how Paul closes the epistle?