Philippians 2:30
For, because of the Messiah's work, he came near to death, and little regarded his life, that he might fulfill what you lacked in the ministration to me.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
29Receive him then in the Lord, with all joy; and hold in honor those who are such.
Cross References
Acts 20:24But my life is accounted by me as nothing, so that I may but finish my course, and the ministration which I have received from our Lord Jesus, to bear testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.
1 Corinthians 15:53For this which is corruptible, is to put on incorruption; and that which dieth, will put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 16:17And I rejoice at the arrival of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for they have supplied that wherein ye were deficient towards me.
2 Corinthians 12:15And cheerfully will I both pay my expenses, and also give myself for your souls; although the more I love you, the less ye love me.
Philippians 2:17And if I should be made a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and exult with you all.
Philippians 4:10And I rejoice greatly in our Lord, that ye have again commenced caring for me; even as ye had before cared for me, but ye had not the 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 →