Philippians 2:1
Listen. You know that you belong to Jesus Christ, and he helps you to be strong and brave. You know that he loves you, so you are happy. You know that God’s spirit is in you, and you share your lives with him. You know how to feel sorry for each other, and how to help each other. You know all that, right?
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Luke 2:10But the angel said, “Don’t be frightened. I’ve got really good news for you, and good news for everyone in the world too.
John 14:18I’m going back to my father, but I will not leave you all alone, like kids without a mother or father. No. I will come back to you.
John 15:10I always do what my father wants me to do, and he keeps on loving me. In the same way, if you keep on doing what I told you to do, I will keep on loving you.
John 17:13Father, I am coming to you soon, but I am saying these things now, while I am still here in the world, so that my followers can be properly happy inside themselves, just like I am.
Acts 4:32All those people that believed in Jesus agreed with each other and felt the same way about things. They shared everything they owned with each other. They never said, “Those things are mine, you can’t have them.” No, they reckoned everything belonged to everyone.
Romans 5:5And we can be sure that God will be good to us then, because he already gave us the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is in us, so we know that God loves us.
Matthew Henry on Philippians 2:1
The apostle proceeds to further exhortations to several duties, to be like-minded, and lowly-minded, which he presses from the example of Christ ( ver. 1-11 ), to be diligent and serious in the Christian course ( ver. 12, 13 ), and to adorn their Christian profession by several suitable graces, ver. 14-18 . He then concludes with particular notice and commendation of two good ministers, Timothy and Epaphroditus, whom he designed to send to them, ver. 19-30 . Read the whole commentary →