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Paul met Timothy in this city, which was located in today's modern Turkey.
What is Lystra?
Do all things but don't do these two things. (2:14)
What is arguing and grumbling?
This behavior is a sign of destruction for the opponents of the gospel, but a sign of salvation for the Philippians.
What is being unalarmed.
(1:27b-28a)
In 365 B.C., King Philip II of Macedon (father of Alexander the Great) made this connection to the city of Philippe.
What is he named it after himself?
This man's name means small or humble in greek.
Who is Paul?
Paul sent his son in the faith to check on these three struggling churches.
What are Corinth, Philippi, and Thessalonica?
Paul told his readers that it is for God's good pleasure that He works in them to do these two things. (2:13)
What is to will and to work?
When Paul refers to the church living in a "crooked and perverse generation" in verse 15, he is quoting a direct phrase spoken by this famous prophet against Israel.
Who is Moses?
(Deuteronomy 32:5)
The city of Philippe sat on a major trade route called The Egnation Way in this region of the world.
What is Macedonia?
The Greek word goggysmos, is an onomatopoeia for the sound of this bad habit Paul was calling the Philippians attention to.
What is grumbling?
This first-century Christian minister, a close missionary associate of the Paul, and founder of the church in Colossae is often mistaken for another of Paul's friends, Epaphroditus.
Who is Epaphras?
(see Colossians 1:7-8, Colossians 4:12-13, and Philemon 1:23)
Paul wrote that he hoped to send these two men to the church in Philippi, one shortly and the other immediately. (2:19, 23)
Who are Timothy and Epaphroditus?
What does Paul do when life is wrinkled and imperfect?
What is press on?
(3:12)
A local Philippian jailor and a female business owner were among the first Europeans to do this.
What is become followers of Christ?
This man's name means lovely or charming in Greek.
Who is Epaphroditus?
These two Philippian women contended at Paul's side in the cause of the gospel, but later they contended against each other!
Who are Euodia and Syntyche?
(Philippians 4:3)
Paul did not do these two things in vain.
What is run and labor? (2:16)
At the end of his letter, Paul declares, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your ______"
What is spirit?
Because expensive purple dye required the decomposition of this particular gastropod, Lydia's business was most likely close to the Gangites River, so that the rotting gastropods could be quickly flushed away.
What is a Murex Snail?
I've got the chara, chara, chara, chara, down in my heart...
What is joy?