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  I CANNOT DO ALL THINGS Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through (en – in) Christ who strengthens me.  That is a wonderful Scripture but what does ‘all things’ mean and what does ‘through’ mean? To get the full meaning of all this I need to mention something a little irregular in the English interpretation of that text. The correct English word for ‘through’ in that Scripture is ‘in’. The Bible uses the English word ‘through’ 119 times in Paul’s epistles, and the Greek word for through is always dia except in that one text here where the word en is used, and en means in, not through, so my reading of this would  be ‘I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me. This brings home the point that Christ is the one doing the ‘all things’ that he wants to happen and I’m being strengthened in doing it with him. Am I being too pedantic, isn’t me doing it through Christ okay? think it through, because with Paul this is all about being IN Christ – IN Christ is relational, being part of God’s life, but doing th