For your fellowship 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;
- BSB because of your partnership 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 4:14–15Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
- Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
- Phil 1:7Even 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.
- Phlm 1:17If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
- 2 Cor 8:1Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;
- Eph 3:6That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
- Col 1:21–23And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
- 1 Jn 1:3That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
- Acts 16:12–40And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.
- Acts 2:42And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
- 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
- 2 Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
- Rom 15:26For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
- 1 Cor 1:9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Phil 2:12Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
- Rom 11:17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
- Rom 12:13Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
- Eph 2:19–22Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
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