Philippians 1:9
This is what I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more in real knowledge and full discernment,
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
In Context
8God is my witness how I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children—well, in malice be ‘infants’, but in thinking be adults.
Ephesians 5:17That is why you must not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
Colossians 1:9For this very reason, since the day we heard of it, we have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the real knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
1 Thessalonians 3:12And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward each other and toward all, just as we also do toward you,
1 Thessalonians 4:9Now about brotherly love you do not need to be written to, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
Matthew Henry on Philippians 1:8-9
The Apostle's Affection and Hope. ( a. d. 62.) 7 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. 8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. The apostle expresses the ardent affection he had for them, and his concern for their spiritual welfare: I have you in my heart, v. 7 . He loved them as his own soul, and they lay… Read the whole commentary →