Philippians 1:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

It is

Because

2 Corinthians 3:2

2 Corinthians 7:3

I have you in my heart

Galatians 5:6

1 John 3:14

As

And in

Philippians 1:17

Philippians 4:14

Partakers of my

1 Peter 5:1

General references

Philippians 1:5

Bible References

It is

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantlymentioning you in our prayers,

For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things--things that belong to salvation.

Because

You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.

I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.

I have you in my heart

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

As

And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.

For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles--

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.

At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison--

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,

for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!

sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.

And in

The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.

Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble.

Partakers of my

because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:

General references

because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.