Philippians 2:15

Moffatt

Philippians 2:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Blameless

And

Matthew 10:16

Romans 16:19

Hebrews 7:26

Sons

1 John 3:1

Rebuke

1 Timothy 5:14

Titus 2:10

Revelation 3:9

A crooked

Matthew 17:17

Acts 20:30

1 Peter 2:12

Ye shine

Matthew 5:14

John 5:35

Ephesians 5:8

General references

Galatians 3:26

Bible References

Blameless

They were both just in the sight of God, blameless in their obedience to all the commands and regulations of God;

and to the very end he will guarantee that you are vindicated on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

in order to have the church as his very own, standing before him in all her glory, with never a spot or wrinkle or any such flaw, but consecrated and unblemished.

May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

So lay down the following rules, to prevent any reproach being incurred.

men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate.

Then, beloved, as you are expecting this, be eager to be found by him unspotted and unblemished in serene assurance.

And

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be wise like serpents and guileless like doves.

Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel; it makes me rejoice over you. Still, I want you to be experts in good and innocents in evil.

Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,

Sons

that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

Therefore come away from them, separate, saith the Lord, touch not what is unclean; then I will receive you,

Copy God, then, as his beloved children,

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

But you are the elect race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the People who belong to Him, that you may proclaim the wondrous deeds of Him who has called you from darkness to his wonderful light ??10 you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

Rebuke

So I prefer young widows to marry again, to bear children, to look after their households, and not to afford our opponents any chance of reviling us.

not to embezzle, but to prove themselves truly faithful at all points, so as to be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Saviour in all respects.

Lo, I will make those who belong to that synagogue of Satan, who style themselves Jews (no Jews are they, but liars!) ??lo, I will have them come and do homage before your feet and learn that I did love you.

A crooked

Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long must I still be with you? How long have I to bear with you? Bring him here to me."

and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.

Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.

Ye shine

You are the light of the world. A town on the top of a hill cannot be hidden.

he was a burning and a shining lamp, and you chose to rejoice for a while in his light.

For while once upon a time you were darkness, now in the Lord you are light; lead the life of those who are children of the light

General references

you are all sons of God by your faith in Christ Jesus