Philippians 2:30
because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
29Receive him therefore in [the] Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour;
Cross References
Acts 20:24But I make no account of [my] life [as] dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.
1 Corinthians 15:53For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 16:17But I rejoice in the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; because *they* have supplied what was lacking on your part.
2 Corinthians 12:15Now *I* shall most gladly spend and be utterly spent for your souls, if even in abundantly loving you I should be less loved.
Philippians 2:17But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.
Philippians 4:10But I rejoiced in [the] Lord greatly, that now however at length ye have revived your thinking of me, though surely ye did also think [of me], but lacked opportunity.
Matthew Henry on Philippians 2:20-30
Praise of Timothy and Epaphroditus. ( a. d. 62.) 19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. 22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. 23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. 24 But… Read the whole commentary →