THROUGH CHRIST - I can do all things through Christ Who gives me strength - The context is saying that we can do anything that is in the will of Jesus Christ because He is the One who will strengthen (enable) you do to it. Paul is not saying that we can do anything we want or anything in Christ that is not His will. But he is saying that we can endure all sufferings if we are in Christ.

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 All Things Through Christ

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

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“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 

Paul is not telling the church at Philippi that they can do anything they want or can do all things that they want to do. 

He is saying that we can do anything “through Christ” or “in Christ.” 

The context is saying that we can do anything that is in the will of Jesus Christ because He is the One who will strengthen (enable) you do to it.  

Paul is not saying that we can do anything we want or anything in Christ that is not His will.

But he is saying that we can endure all sufferings if we are in Christ.

In the verses before Paul writes, “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need” (Philippians 4:11-12).  

Paul was writing this in prison and he was likely cold, hungry, and alone, yet he learned to be content in whatever state he was in … but only “in Christ.”  

It might be better to think of this as saying “We can endure all things in Christ.”

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What Bible verses do you see most often are taken out of context?

How does proper context change what people perceive verses to mean?

Context is Everything
Maybe you have heard it said that text taken out of context makes it a pretext, and usually a false one at that. 

When we take texts out of their context we are stripping the meaning of the verses and give them a different, and usually a wrong meaning.  

Far too many people try and find one Bible verse and come up with a doctrine. The result is that Bible verses are taken out of context and misapplied.

That is not the way to read the Bible. 

When we want to take out or interpret Scripture properly, we need to read the entire paragraph, the entire chapter, and sometimes the entire book. 

To take one verse and use it to build a belief system is highly fraught with error. 

That is how cults are started.

Excerpt from

Top 6 Bible Verses Often Taken Out of Context

by JACK WELLMAN

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