Philippians 1:29
Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:
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30Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.
Cross References
Matthew 5:11Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.
John 1:12To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:
Acts 5:41So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.
Acts 14:22Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
Romans 5:3And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
Colossians 2:12Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
Matthew Henry on Philippians 1:28-30
The Apostle's Exhortations. ( a. d. 62.) 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; 28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. 29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to… Read the whole commentary →