because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,
Parallel translations
- WEB for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
- KJV For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
- NKJV for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,
- NASB in view of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now.
- NLT for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you first heard it until now.
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Quick answer
Paul's joy rests on the Philippians' ongoing partnership in spreading the gospel. They have shared in the work from the start.
Overview
"Partnership" (koinonia) includes their financial support and active fellowship in the mission. From their conversion until now they have stood with Paul, making them co-laborers, not mere spectators. This shared commitment to the Good News is itself ground for thanksgiving.
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Cross-references · 18
- Phil 4:14–15Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.
- Heb 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
- Phil 1:7It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart. For in my chains and in my defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partners in grace with me.
- Phlm 1:17So if you consider me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
- 2 Cor 8:1Now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the churches of Macedonia.
- Eph 3:6This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.
- Col 1:21–23Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
- 1 Jn 1:3We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
- Acts 16:12–40From there we went to the Roman colony of Philippi, the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days.
- Acts 2:42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
- 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
- 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
- Rom 15:26For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
- 1 Cor 1:9God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
- Phil 2:12Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
- Rom 11:17Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,
- Rom 12:13Share with the saints who are in need. Practice hospitality.
- Eph 2:19–22Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
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