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

She knows how to be silent. She is full of trust, full of hope, full of patient endurance.

We continually give thanks to God because of you all, while we make mention of you in our prayers.

for all of you are sons of Light and sons of the day. We belong neither to the night nor to darkness.

But we, even while we speak in this tone, have a happier conviction concerning you, my dearly-loved friends--a conviction of things which point towards salvation.

Because

Our letter of recommendation is yourselves--a letter written on our hearts and everywhere known and read.

I do not say this to imply blame, for, as I have already said, you have such a place in our hearts that we would die with you or live with you.

I have you in my heart

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is of any importance; but only faith working through love.

As for us, we know that we have already passed out of death into Life--because we love our brother men. He who is destitute of love continues dead.

As

and, after severely flogging them, they threw them into jail and bade the jailer keep them safely.

except that the Holy Spirit, at town after town, testifies to me that imprisonment and suffering are awaiting me.

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

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received--

to spread which I am an ambassador in chains--so that when telling them I may speak out boldly as I ought.

And pray at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door for preaching, for us to tell the truth concerning Christ for the sake of which I am even a prisoner.

Do not be ashamed then to bear witness for our Lord and for me His prisoner; but rather share suffering with me in the service of the Good News, strengthened by the power of God.

For preaching the Good News I suffer, and am even put in chains, as if I were a criminal: yet the word of God is not imprisoned.

This was partly through allowing yourselves to be made a public spectacle amid reproaches and persecutions, and partly through coming forward to share the sufferings of those who were thus treated.

And in

while the others proclaim Him from motives of rivalry, and insincerely, supposing that by this they are embittering my imprisonment.

Yet I thank you for taking your share in my troubles.

Partakers of my

I thank my God, I say, for your cooperation in spreading the Good News, from the time it first came to you even until now.

And I do everything for the sake of the Good News, that I may share with my hearers in its benefits.

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

On the contrary, in the degree that you share in the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice, so that at the unveiling of His glory you may also rejoice with triumphant gladness.

So I exhort the Elders among you--I who am their fellow Elder and have been an eye-witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and am also a sharer in the glory which is soon to be revealed.

General references

I thank my God, I say, for your cooperation in spreading the Good News, from the time it first came to you even until now.