Philippians 1:6

Paul is sure that God, who began saving work in the believers, will finish it. Salvation is God's project from start to completion.

Cross-references · 31

• 1 Th 5:23–24May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• Eph 4:12for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
• Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
• Ps 138:8Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.
• 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
• Rom 8:28–30We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
• 1 Cor 1:8who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Th 1:11To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith, with power;
• Heb 10:35Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
• John 6:29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
• Phil 1:10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
• Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Titus 3:4–6But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
• 2 Th 2:13–14But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;
• Eph 2:4–10But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Jas 1:16–18Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• 1 Pet 1:2–3according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• Phlm 1:21Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even beyond what I say.
• Phil 1:29Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
• 2 Th 3:4We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you both do and will do the things we command.
• Col 2:12having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.
• 2 Cor 7:16I rejoice that in everything I am confident concerning you.
• Acts 11:18When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”
• Acts 16:14A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
• 2 Pet 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
• Gal 5:10I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
• 2 Cor 9:4so that I won’t by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) should be disappointed in this confident boasting.
• 2 Cor 2:3And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.
• 2 Cor 1:15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

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