Philippians 1:9

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And this is my prayer, that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight.

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  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you.
  • Col 1:9 : 9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,
  • 2 Pet 1:5-6 : 5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith virtue; to virtue, knowledge; 6 to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness;
  • Col 3:10 : 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its Creator.
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10 And indeed you are doing this toward all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel even more.
  • Phlm 1:6 : 6 I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective through knowing every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We always ought to give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you for one another is increasing.
  • Eph 5:17 : 17 Because of this, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
  • Phil 3:15-16 : 15 Let all of us who are mature think this way. And if in anything you think differently, that too God will reveal to you. 16 Only let us hold true to what we have already attained.
  • 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.
  • 2 Cor 8:7 : 7 But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in the love we inspired in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 The path of the righteous is like the morning light, shining brighter and brighter until the full day.
  • Matt 13:31-33 : 31 He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in his field.' 32 Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches. 33 He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about fifty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.'
  • 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, just as you received instructions from us on how you ought to live and please God, that you would excel even more.
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But solid food is for the mature, those who through practice have trained their senses to discern good from evil.
  • Job 17:9 : 9 Yet the righteous hold to their way, and those with clean hands grow stronger.
  • 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But 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.

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  • Col 1:8-10
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    8 and who has told us about your love in the Spirit.

    9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,

    10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,

  • Phil 1:10-11
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    10 So that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.

    11 Filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

  • 2 Cor 8:7-8
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    7 But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in the love we inspired in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

    8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.

  • Phil 1:7-8
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    7 It is right for me to think this way about you all, because I have you in my heart; whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, you all share in God’s grace with me.

    8 For God is my witness, how I yearn for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.

  • Eph 3:17-19
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    17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and established in love,

    18 may have strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth,

    19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you.

  • Phlm 1:4-9
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    4 I always thank my God as I mention you in my prayers,

    5 because I hear about your love and faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

    6 I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective through knowing every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.

    7 For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, my brother.

    8 For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

    9 I appeal instead, on the basis of love. Being such as I am—Paul, an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—

  • Phil 1:25-26
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    25 Since I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,

    26 so that because of my coming to you again, your boasting in Christ Jesus may abound.

  • Phlm 1:21
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    21 Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.

  • 2 Cor 2:8-9
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    8 Therefore, I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

    9 For this reason, I also wrote to you, to test you and see if you are obedient in everything.

  • Phil 1:3-4
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    3 I thank my God every time I remember you.

    4 Always, in every prayer of mine for all of you, I pray with joy.

  • 1 Cor 1:5
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    5 That in every way you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge,

  • Eph 1:15-17
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    15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

    16 I never stop giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

    17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better.

  • Rom 1:9-11
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    9 For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of His Son, is my witness that I unceasingly mention you

    10 always in my prayers, asking that if it is somehow in God's will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.

    11 For I long to see you, that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—

  • 1 Thess 4:10
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    10 And indeed you are doing this toward all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel even more.

  • Eph 1:8
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    8 which He lavished on us in all wisdom and understanding.

  • Phil 1:19
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    19 For I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, this will result in my deliverance.

  • 2 Thess 1:11-12
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    11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of His calling and by His power fulfill every desire for goodness and every work of faith.

    12 So that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Cor 9:14
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    14 And in their prayers for you, their hearts will go out to you because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.

  • Col 2:2
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    2 I do this so that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and that they may have all the riches of full assurance of understanding, which leads to the full knowledge of God's mystery—Christ himself.

  • 2 Thess 1:3
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    3 We always ought to give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you for one another is increasing.

  • 2 Pet 1:7-8
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    7 to godliness, brotherly love; and to brotherly love, love.

    8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they will keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Phil 1:17
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    17 The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains.

  • Col 1:4
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    4 since we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints.

  • 1 Thess 3:10
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    10 Night and day we pray earnestly that we may see your face and complete what is lacking in your faith.

  • 2 Cor 2:4
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    4 For out of great distress and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears, not to grieve you but to let you know the love I have for you more abundantly.

  • 2 Pet 1:2
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    2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

  • 2 Pet 3:18
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    18 But 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.

  • 2 Cor 9:8
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    8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in every way, at all times, having all that you need, you may abound in every good work.