Philippians 2:17

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Summary

Philippians 2:17

Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

And if

The sacrifice

1 Peter 2:5

I joy

2 Corinthians 7:4

Colossians 1:24

1 Thessalonians 3:7

General references

Philippians 1:26

Bible References

And if

for in the work of Christ he was nigh unto death indifferent about life, that he might afford me that service which it was not in your power to render me.

according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death.

Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

But Paul replied, Why do ye thus??eeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not only to be bound, but to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

So, tenderly affected towards you, we could with pleasure have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but our own lives also, because ye were beloved by us.

For I am now ready to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution approaches.

By this we have known the love [of Christ], because for us he laid down his own life: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

The sacrifice

But I have now all things, and abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your bounty, an odour of sweet smell, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God; that the oblation of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

By him therefore let us offer a sacrifice of praise perpetually to God, that is the fruit of our lips confessing his name.

ye also, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, well pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

I joy

Great is my freedom of speech to you, great is my glorying over you: I am filled with consolation, I overflow with joy in all our tribulation.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh the measure of afflictions for Christ which remains to be endured for his body, which is the church,

for this cause we have felt consolation, brethren, in you under all our tribulation and distress, because of your fidelity.

General references

that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus for me by my coming again unto you.