Philippians 2:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

Holding forth the worde of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Christ, that I haue not runne in vaine, neither haue laboured in vaine.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 1:14 : 14 Euen as ye haue acknowledged vs partly, that we are your reioycing, euen as ye are ours, in the day of our Lord Iesus.
  • Gal 2:2 : 2 And I went vp by reuelation, and declared vnto them that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but particularly to them that were the chiefe, least by any meanes I should runne, or had runne in vaine:
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope or ioye, or crowne of reioycing? are not euen you it in the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ at his comming?
  • 1 Thess 3:5 : 5 Euen for this cause, when I could no longer forbeare, I sent him that I might knowe of your faith, lest the tempter had tempted you in any sort, and that our labour had bene in vaine.
  • Ps 71:17 : 17 O God, thou hast taught me fro my youth euen vntill nowe: therefore will I tell of thy wonderous workes,
  • 1 John 1:1 : 1 That which was from the beginning, which wee haue heard, which wee haue seene with these our eyes, which wee haue looked vpon, and these handes of ours haue handled of that Word of life,
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come; let him that heareth, say, Come: and let him that is a thirst, come: and let whosoeuer will, take of the water of life freely.
  • Ps 40:9 : 9 I haue declared thy righteousnesse in the great Congregation: loe, I will not refraine my lippes: O Lord, thou knowest.
  • Isa 49:4 : 4 And I said, I haue labored in vaine: I haue spent my strength in vaine and for nothing: but my iudgement is with the Lorde, and my woorke with my God.
  • Matt 10:27 : 27 What I tell you in darkenesse, that speake yee in light: and what yee heare in the eare, that preach yee on the houses.
  • Luke 12:8 : 8 Also I say vnto you, Whosoeuer shall confesse mee before men, him shall the Sonne of man confesse also before the Angels of God.
  • John 6:63 : 63 It is the spirite that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the woordes that I speake vnto you, are spirite and life.
  • John 6:68 : 68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Master, to whome shall we goe? thou hast the wordes of eternall life:
  • Acts 13:26 : 26 Yee men and brethren, children of the generation of Abraham, and whosoeuer among you feareth God, to you is the woorde of this saluation sent.
  • Rom 10:8-9 : 8 But what sayth it? The worde is neere thee, euen in thy mouth, and in thine heart. This is the worde of faith which we preach. 9 For if thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus, and shalt beleeue in thine heart, that God raised him vp from the dead, thou shalt be saued: 10 For with the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnes, and with the mouth man confesseth to saluation. 11 For the Scripture saith, Whosoeuer beleeueth in him, shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference betweene the Iewe and the Grecian: for he that is Lorde ouer all, is rich vnto all, that call on him. 13 For whosoeuer shall call vpon the Name of the Lord, shalbe saued. 14 But how shall they call on him, in whome they haue not beleeued? and how shall they beleeue in him, of whom they haue not heard? and howe shall they heare without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, Howe beautifull are the feete of them which bring glad tidings of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! 16 But they haue not all obeyed ye Gospel: for Esaias saith, Lord, who hath beleeued our report?
  • 1 Cor 9:26 : 26 I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.
  • 2 Tim 2:15-17 : 15 Studie to shewe thy selfe approued vnto God, a workeman that needeth not to be ashamed, diuiding the worde of trueth aright. 16 Stay prophane, and vaine babblings: for they shall encrease vnto more vngodlinesse. 17 And their worde shall fret as a canker: of which sort is Hymeneus and Philetus,
  • Heb 4:12 : 12 For the worde of God is liuely, and mightie in operation, & sharper then any two edged sword, and entreth through, euen vnto the diuiding asunder of the soule and the spirit, and of the ioints, and the marow, and is a discerner of the thoughtes, and the intents of the heart.
  • 1 Pet 1:23 : 23 Being borne anewe, not of mortall seede, but of immortall, by the woorde of God, who liueth and endureth for euer.
  • Gal 4:11 : 11 I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.
  • Phil 1:26-27 : 26 That ye may more aboundantly reioyce in Iesvs Christ for me, by my comming to you againe. 27 Onely let your conuersation be, as it becommeth the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or els be absent, I may heare of your matters that ye continue in one Spirit, and in one mind, fighting together through the faith of the Gospel.

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    17 Yea, and though I bee offered vp vpon the sacrifice, and seruice of your faith, I am glad, and reioyce with you all.

    18 For the same cause also be ye glad, and reioyce with me.

  • Phil 1:16-22
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    16 The one part preacheth Christ of contention and not purely, supposing to adde more affliction to my bandes.

    17 But the others of loue, knowing that I am set for the defence of the Gospell.

    18 What then? yet Christ is preached all maner wayes, whether it be vnder a pretence, or syncerely: and I therein ioye: yea and will ioye.

    19 For I knowe that this shall turne to my saluation through your prayer, and by the helpe of the Spirit of Iesus Christ,

    20 As I feruently looke for, and hope, that in nothing I shalbe ashamed, but that with all confidence, as alwayes, so nowe Christ shalbe magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

    21 For Christ is to me both in life, & in death aduantage.

    22 And whether to liue in the flesh were profitable for me, and what to chuse I knowe not.

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    15 That ye may be blamelesse, & pure, and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whom yee shine as lights in the world,

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    10 That ye may alowe those things which are best, that ye may be pure, and without offence vntill the day of Christ,

    11 Filled with the fruites of righteousnesse, which are by Iesus Christ vnto the glorie & praise of God.

    12 I would ye vnderstood, brethren, that the things which haue come vnto me, are turned rather to the furthering of the Gospell,

    13 So that my bandes in Christ are famous throughout all the iudgement hall, and in all other places,

    14 In so much that many of the brethren in the Lord are boldened through my bandes, and dare more frankely speake the word.

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    30 Because that for the woorke of Christ he was neere vnto death, and regarded not his life, to fulfill that seruice which was lacking on your part towarde me.

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    58 Therefore my beloued brethren, be ye stedfast, vnmoueable, aboundant alwayes in the worke of the Lord, forasmuch as ye knowe that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord.

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    25 And this am I sure of, that I shal abide, and with you all continue, for your furtherance and ioy of your faith,

    26 That ye may more aboundantly reioyce in Iesvs Christ for me, by my comming to you againe.

    27 Onely let your conuersation be, as it becommeth the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or els be absent, I may heare of your matters that ye continue in one Spirit, and in one mind, fighting together through the faith of the Gospel.

    28 And in nothing feare your aduersaries, which is to them a token of perdition, and to you of saluation, and that of God.

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    1 For ye your selues knowe, brethren, that our entrance in vnto you was not in vaine,

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    29 Whereunto I also labour & striue, according to his working which worketh in me mightily.

  • Acts 20:24
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    24 But I passe not at all, neither is my life deare vnto my selfe, so that I may fulfill my course with ioye, and the ministration which I haue receiued of the Lorde Iesus, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God.

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    5 Because of the felowship which ye haue in the Gospel, from the first day vnto nowe.

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    30 Hauing the same fight, which ye sawe in me, and nowe heare to be in me.

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    11 I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vaine.

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    17 I haue therefore whereof I may reioyce in Christ Iesus in those things which pertaine to God.

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    16 And to preache the Gospel in those regions which are beyonde you: not to reioyce in another mans line, that is, in the thinges that are prepared alreadie.

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    26 I therefore so runne, not as vncertainely: so fight I, not as one that beateth the ayre.

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    1 Therefore, my brethre, beloued and longed for, my ioy and my crowne, so continue in the Lorde, yee beloued.

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    12 Not as though I had alreadie attained to it, either were alreadie perfect: but I folow, if that I may comprehend that for whose sake also I am comprehended of Christ Iesus.

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    23 And this I doe for the Gospels sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

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    20 Yes, ye are our glory and ioy.

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    13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for your sakes, which is your glory.

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    10 The trueth of Christ is in me, that this reioycing shall not be shut vp against me in the regions of Achaia.

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    3 And I wrote this same thing vnto you, lest when I came, I should take heauines of them, of whom I ought to reioyce: this confidence haue I in you all, that my ioye is the ioye of you all.

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    14 And followe hard toward the marke, for the prise of the hie calling of God in Christ Iesus.

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    13 Whom I woulde haue reteined with mee, that in thy steade he might haue ministred vnto me in the bondes of the Gospel.

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    31 By your reioycing which I haue in Christ Iesus our Lord, I die dayly.

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    13 Keepe the true paterne of the wholesome wordes, which thou hast heard of me in faith and loue which is in Christ Iesus.

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    12 For our reioycing is this, the testimonie of our conscience, that in simplicitie and godly purenesse, and not in fleshly wisedome, but by the grace of God wee haue had our conuersation in the worlde, and most of all to you wardes.

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    10 Therefore I suffer all things, for the elects sake, that they might also obtaine the saluation which is in Christ Iesus, with eternall glorie.