Philippians 1:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For your felowship in the Gospell, fro the first day vntyll nowe.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐπὶ τῇ κοινωνίᾳ ὑμῶν εἰς τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ἀπὸ πρώτης ἡμέρας ἄχρι τοῦ νῦν·

Transliteration

Epi the koinōnia of you into the euangelion from prōtēs hēmeras until the now;

Grammar Details

• *Epi*: preposition + dative - because of/for
• *koinōnia*: dative, feminine, singular - fellowship/partnership/participation
• *euangelion*: accusative, neuter, singular - gospel/good news
• *prōtēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - first
• *hēmeras*: genitive, feminine, singular - day
• *achri*: preposition + genitive - until/as far as

Word Meanings

• *Epi*: because of/for/on account of
• *koinōnia*: fellowship/partnership/participation/contribution
• *euangelion*: gospel/good news
• *prōtēs hēmeras*: first day/beginning

Referenced Verses

• Acts 16:12-40 : 12 And from thence, to Philippos, which is the chiefe citie in the partes of Macedonia, and a free citie: And we were in that citie abydyng certayne dayes. 13 And on the day of the Sabbothes, we went out of the citie, besydes a ryuer, where prayer was wont to be made: And we sate downe, and spake vnto the women which resorted thyther. 14 And a certayne woman, named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the citie of the Thyatirians, which worshipped God, gaue vs audience: Whose hearte the Lorde opened, that she attended vnto the thynges which Paul spake. 15 And when she was baptized, and her householde, she besought vs, saying: Yf ye haue iudged me to be faythfull to the Lorde, come into my house, and abyde there. And she constrayned vs. 16 And it came to passe, as we went to prayer, a certayne damsell, possessed with a spirite of southsaying met vs: which brought her maisters much vantage with southsaying. 17 The same folowed Paul and vs, and cryed, saying: These men are the seruauntes of the most hye God, which shewe vnto vs the way of saluation. 18 And this dyd she many dayes. But Paul not content, turned about, & sayde to the spirite, I commaunde thee in the name of Iesu Christe, that thou come out of her. And he came out the same houre. 19 And when her maisters sawe that the hope of their gaynes was gone, they caught Paul & Silas, and drewe them into the market place, vnto the rulers, 20 And brought them to the officers, saying: These men trouble our citie, being Iewes: 21 And preache ordinaunces, which are not lawfull for vs to receaue, neither to obserue, seeyng we are Romanes. 22 And the people ran agaynst them, and the officers rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes. 23 And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into pryson, commaundyng the iayler of the pryson to kepe them diligently. 24 Which when he had receaued such commaundement, thrust them into the inner pryson, and made their feete fast in the stockes. 25 And at mydnyght Paul and Silas prayed, and lauded God. And the prysoners hearde them. 26 And sodenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the pryson was shaken, and immediatly all the doores opened, and euery mans bandes were loosed. 27 When the keper of the pryson waked out of his sleepe, and sawe the pryson doores open, he drewe out his sworde and woulde haue kylled hym selfe, supposyng that the prysoners had ben fled. 28 But Paul cryed with a loude voyce, saying: Do thy selfe no harme, for we are all here. 29 Then he called for a lyght, and sprang in, and came tremblyng, and fell downe before Paul and Silas, 30 And brought them out, & sayde: Syrs, what must I do to be saued? 31 And they sayde: beleue on the Lorde Iesus Christe, and thou shalt be saued, and thy householde. 32 And they spake vnto hym the worde of the Lorde, and to all that were in his house. 33 And he toke them the same houre of the nyght, and wasshed their woundes, and was baptized hym selfe, & all they of his householde strayghtway. 34 And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and ioyed that he with all his householde beleued on God. 35 And when it was day, the officers sent the sergeauntes, saying: Let those men go. 36 And the keper of the pryson tolde this saying to Paul, the officers haue sent worde to loose you. Nowe therfore, get you hence, and go in peace. 37 Then sayde Paul vnto them: They haue beaten vs openly vncondempned, beyng Romanes, and haue cast vs into pryson: and nowe woulde they thrust vs out priuily? Nay veryly, but let them come them selues, and fet vs out. 38 And the sergeaunts tolde these wordes vnto the officers, and they feared when they hearde that they were Romanes. 39 And they came and besought them, and brought them out, and desired the to depart out of the citie. 40 And they went out of the pryson, and entred into the house of Lydia, & when they had seene the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.
• Phil 1:7 : 7 As it becommeth me to iudge this of you al, because I haue you in my heart, and in my bondes, in the defence and confirmation of the Gospell, you all beyng partakers of my grace.
• Phil 4:14-15 : 14 Notwithstandyng, ye haue well done yt ye dyd communicate to my afflictions. 15 Ye Philippians knowe also, that in the begynnyng of the Gospell, when I departed fro Macedonia, no Church communicated to me, as concernyng geuyng and receauyng, but ye only.
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But and yf we walke in light, euen as he is in lyght, then haue we felowship one with another, and the blood of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from all sinne.
• Phlm 1:17 : 17 If thou count me therfore a felowe, receaue hym as my selfe.
• Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christe, yf we kepe sure vnto the ende the begynnyng of the substaunce,
• 2 Pet 1:1 : 1 Simon Peter, a seruaunt and an Apostle of Iesus Christe, to them which haue obteined lyke precious faith with vs, thorowe the ryghteousnes of our god and sauiour Iesus Christe:
• 1 John 1:3 : 3 That which we haue seene and heard declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue felowship with vs, and that our felowship may be with the father, and his sonne Iesus Christe.
• Col 1:21-23 : 21 And you which were sometyme straungers, and enemies, by cogitation in euyll workes, hath he nowe yet reconciled, 22 In the body of his fleshe, through death, to present you holye, and vnblameable, & without fault in his syght: 23 If ye continue grounded & stablisshed in the fayth, and be not moued away from the hope of the Gospell, which ye haue hearde howe it is preached to euery creature which is vnder heauen, wherof I Paul am made a minister.
• Phil 2:12 : 12 Wherfore, my dearely beloued, as ye haue alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence only, but nowe much more in my absence, worke out your owne saluation with feare and tremblyng.
• Acts 2:42 : 42 And they continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine and felowship, and in breakyng of bread, and in prayers.
• Eph 3:6 : 6 That the gentiles shoulde be inheritours also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christe, by the Gospell:
• Rom 11:17 : 17 And yf some of the brauches be broken of, and thou beyng a wylde Oliue tree, wast graft in among them, & made partaker of the roote and fatnesse of the Oliue tree:
• Rom 12:13 : 13 Distributyng to ye necessitie of saintes, geuen to hospitalitie.
• Rom 15:26 : 26 For it hath pleased them of Macedonia & Achaia to make a certaine comon gatheryng for the poore saintes whiche are at Hierusalem.
• 1 Cor 1:9 : 9 God is faythfull, by whom ye are called vnto the felowship of his sonne Iesus Christe our Lorde.
• 2 Cor 8:1 : 1 Moreouer, we do you to wite brethren, of the grace of God, which was geuen in the Churches of Macedonia.
• Eph 2:19-22 : 19 Nowe therefore, ye are no more straungers and foreyners: but citezins with the saintes, and of the housholde of God, 20 And are built vpon the foundation of the apostles and prophetes, Iesus Christe hym selfe beyng the head corner stone, 21 In whom all the buyldyng coupled together, groweth vnto an holy temple in the Lorde. 22 In whom ye also are buylded together for an habitation of God through the spirite.