Context is always necessary.
One thing I am learning to do when I come across individual verses anywhere is to go back to Scripture and read the whole chapter where the verses come from and then eventually, the previous and next chapter, then the whole Book. It makes a whole lot of sense.

I saw a meme somewhere where someone quoted... “I can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me,” and someone else told them... “But you can't even go to Church when it rains...”
Thought it was funny... 😂

But thinking about it, I found myself mostly quoting that verse when I was talking about the good and favourable things that I can do through CHRIST, but totally left out the trials and tribulations.
In that verse, (Philippians 4:13), Paul was referring to him being able to live in plenty and in lack...

See verse 12...

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 4:12 NKJV


I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little.
Philippians 4:12 NLT

So can you do all things, for sure?

And yet so many other examples of verses.

Point is, we easily misquote the Bible because we didn't understand the context of the verses. Reading verses out of context was one reason I found many verses in the Bible conflicting with each other. There was nothing wrong with the Bible. The Bible is as unified in each portion of it, as unified can ever be. It was me... Not the Bible.

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