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 the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
• Col 1:9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
• 2 Pet 1:5–6And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
• Phlm 1:6That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
• Col 3:10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
• 2 Cor 8:7Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
• 1 Th 4:9–10But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• 1 Cor 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
• 2 Th 1:3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• 2 Pet 3:18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
• Phil 3:15–16Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
• Heb 5:14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
• Eph 5:17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
• Prov 4:18But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
• 1 Th 4:1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• Matt 13:31–33Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
• Job 17:9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

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