Philippians 1:30

They share the same struggle they saw in Paul and now hear he still faces. Suffering binds them together with the apostle.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Th 2:2As you are aware, we had already endured suffering and shameful treatment in Philippi. But in the face of strong opposition, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God.
• Acts 16:19–40When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.
• 2 Tim 4:7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
• Rom 8:35–37Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
• 2 Tim 2:10–12For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
• John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”
• Heb 12:4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
• Eph 6:11–18Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
• Heb 10:32–33Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering.
• Rev 2:10–11Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Rev 12:11They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
• 1 Tim 6:12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.
• 1 Th 3:2–4We sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
• Col 1:29To this end I also labor, striving with all His energy working powerfully within me.
• 1 Cor 4:9–14For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
• 1 Th 2:14–15For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,
• 1 Cor 15:30–32And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

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