Philippians 1:9
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.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
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Compare
- BSB
- And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
- KJV
- And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
- WEB
- This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
- ASV
- And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
- DARBY
- And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,
- BLB
- And this I pray, that your⁺ love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
- ÅB
- Og dette ber jeg om at deres kjærlighet enda må bli alt rikere og rikere på kunnskap og all skjønnsomhet,
- OTB
- Og dette er min bønn: at deres kjærlighet må bli mer og mer rik på kunnskap og all innsikt,
- B1930
- Og dette beder jeg om at eders kjærlighet ennu må bli alt rikere og rikere på kunnskap og all skjønnsomhet,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
Read in contextColossians 1:9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Read in contextPhilemon 1:6
That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
Read in context2 Peter 1:5–6
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Read in contextColossians 3:10
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Read in context1 Thessalonians 4:9–10
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Read in context2 Corinthians 8:7
Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
Read in context1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
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