Philippians 1:9

Paul prays that their love would keep growing in knowledge and discernment. True love is not blind but informed and wise.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Th 3:12And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,
• Col 1:9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
• 2 Pet 1:5–6For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;
• Phlm 1:6I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.
• Col 3:10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
• 2 Cor 8:7But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness, and in the love we inspired in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
• 1 Th 4:9–10Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
• 1 Pet 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
• 1 Cor 14:20Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
• 2 Th 1:3We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more, and your love for one another is increasing.
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
• Phil 3:15–16All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.
• Heb 5:14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
• Eph 5:17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
• Prov 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
• 1 Th 4:1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
• Matt 13:31–33He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
• Job 17:9Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

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