Philippians 1:15

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

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  • Rom 16:17-18 : 17 ¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
  • 2 Cor 1:19 : 19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, [even] by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 3:3-4 : 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
  • Phil 1:16-18 : 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. 18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
  • 1 Cor 13:3 : 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
  • 1 Cor 1:23 : 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
  • Matt 23:5 : 5 ‹But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,›
  • Acts 5:42 : 42 And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
  • Acts 8:5 : 5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them.
  • Acts 8:35 : 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.
  • Acts 9:20 : 20 And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
  • Acts 10:36 : 36 The word which [God] sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
  • Acts 11:20 : 20 And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
  • Gal 2:4 : 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
  • 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
  • Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
  • 1 Pet 5:2-4 : 2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 Neither as being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. 4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

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  • Phil 1:16-18
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    16The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

    17But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

    18What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

  • Phil 1:11-14
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    11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

    12¶ But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

    13So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other [places];

    14And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

  • Gal 1:6-7
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    6¶ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

    7Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

  • 16For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.

  • 20Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation:

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    11For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them [which are of the house] of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

    12Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

  • 17¶ They zealously affect you, [but] not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

  • 14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

  • 1 Cor 3:3-4
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    3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

    4For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

  • 20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

  • 4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

  • 12But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

  • 30Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear [to be] in me.

  • 6From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

  • 26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

  • 45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

  • 12As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

  • 21For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

  • 18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ:

  • 17¶ For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

  • Rom 16:17-18
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    17¶ Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

    18For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

  • 8¶ Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,

  • 5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

  • 14If by any means I may provoke to emulation [them which are] my flesh, and might save some of them.

  • 16To preach the gospel in the [regions] beyond you, [and] not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.

  • 17For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

  • 15Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

  • 11Therefore whether [it were] I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

  • 15¶ Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

  • 4And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

  • 17¶ I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

  • Gal 1:10-11
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    10¶ For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

    11But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

  • 3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.

  • Phil 1:27-28
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    27¶ Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

    28And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

  • 16Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

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

  • 15So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.

  • 5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

  • 18Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.