Philippians 1:7

It is in fact b'tzedek for me to have hitbonenut (profound contemplation) about you all because I hold you in my lev with hartzige (heartfelt) sincerity, both in regard to my sharsherot (prison chains) and in the apologetic hitstaddekut (defense) and vindicatory work for the Besuras HaGeulah, you being all deveykus (attachment to G-d) participators in the Chen v'Chesed Hashem given to me.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6Being convinced of this: that He who began a pe'ulah hatovah + 1:6 Pp 2:13 (good work) in you, will bring that mitzvoh to completion + 1:6 Ps 138:8 by Yom Hashem, the Yom Adoneinu, Moshiach Yehoshua. + 1:6 Pp 1:10; 2:16

8For der Oybershter is mine eidus (G-d is my witness) how I yearn for all of you with the ahavas Moshiach Yehoshua.

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Cross References

Acts 16:23And having inflicted klop after klop upon these Jewish men, they threw Rav Sha'ul and Sila into the beis hasohar, giving orders to the soher to guard them securely.

Acts 21:33Then the Roman tribune came near and took hold of Rav Sha'ul and ordered him to be bound with two sharsherot (chains), and the tribune was inquiring who he might be and what he had done.

1 Corinthians 13:7Ahavah covers all things, + 13:7 Prov 10:12 believes all things, has tikvah (hope), even savlanut, for all things.

2 Corinthians 7:3I do not say this to bring you under harsha'ah, for I have said before that you are in our levavot + 7:3 2C 6:11-12; Pp 1:7 whether to die with you or to live with you. + 7:3 2Sm 15:21

Ephesians 3:1For this cause, I, Sha'ul, the prisoner of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua for you Nations,

Ephesians 6:20On behalf of which I am an emissary in chains, that in it I may be bold as it is necessary for me to speak.

Matthew Henry on Philippians 1:4-7

The Apostle's Thankfulness and Joy. ( a. d. 62.) 3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, 5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now; 6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: The apostle proceeds after the inscription and benediction to thanksgiving for the saints at Philippi. He tells them what it was he thanked God for, upon… Read the whole commentary →

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