Philippians 2:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλʼ, εἰ καὶ σπένδομαι ἐπὶ τῇ θυσίᾳ καὶ λειτουργίᾳ τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν, χαίρω, καὶ συγχαίρω πᾶσιν ὑμῖν.

Transliteration

But, if indeed I am spendomai upon the thysia and leitourgia of the pisteōs of you, I chairō, and synchairō with all you.

Grammar Details

*spendomai*: present passive indicative, 1st person singular - am being poured out/offered as libation
*thysia*: dative, feminine, singular - sacrifice/offering
*leitourgia*: dative, feminine, singular - service/ministry/priestly service
*pisteōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of faith/belief/trust
*chairō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I rejoice/am glad
*synchairō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I rejoice together/congratulate

Word Meanings

*spendomai*: am being poured out/offered as libation/drink offering
*thysia*: sacrifice/offering/victim
*leitourgia*: service/ministry/priestly service/public service
*pisteōs*: faith/belief/trust/faithfulness
*chairō*: rejoice/am glad/happy
*synchairō*: rejoice together with/congratulate/share joy

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Tim 4:6 : 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure is come.
Rom 15:16 : 16 that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for {G5590} your souls. If {G2532} I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?
Phil 1:20 : 20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
Col 1:24 : 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
1 Pet 2:5 : 5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:16 : 16 Hereby {G5129} know we love, {G2316} because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
1 Thess 2:8 : 8 even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.
1 Thess 3:7-9 : 7 for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith: 8 for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. 9 For what thanksgiving can we render again unto God for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
Heb 13:15-16 : 15 Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Phil 2:30 : 30 because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.
Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.
2 Cor 7:4 : 4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
Acts 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul answered, What do ye, weeping and breaking my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service.

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17but the other {G3303} proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.
18What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein {G1722} I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
19For I know that this shall turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
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Phil 1:25-27
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