Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may still increase and abound in knowledge and in all spiritual understanding;
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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
8For Aloha is my witness how I love you with the bowels of Jeshu Meshiha.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 14:20MY brethren, be not children in your minds, but in evils be you babes, and in your minds be perfect.
Ephesians 5:17On account of this, be not wanting in mind, but understand what is the will of Aloha.
Colossians 1:9ON account of this also we, from the day that we heard, have not ceased to pray for you, and to supplicate that you may be filled with the knowledge of the will of Aloha in all wisdom and in all spiritual understanding,
1 Thessalonians 3:12and he will cause your love to increase to one another, and to every man, even as we love you;
1 Thessalonians 4:9But concerning the love of the brethren, you need not (that I) write to you; for you yourselves are taught of Aloha 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 →