Philippians 1:9

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ τοῦτο προσεύχομαι, ἵνα ἡ ἀγάπη ὑμῶν ἔτι μᾶλλον καὶ μᾶλλον περισσεύῃ ἐν ἐπιγνώσει καὶ πάσῃ αἰσθήσει·

Transliteration

And this proseuchomai, that the agapē of you still more and more perisseuē in epignōsei and all aisthēsei;

Grammar Details

• *proseuchomai*: present indicative, 1st person singular - I pray
• *agapē*: nominative, feminine, singular - love
• *perisseuē*: present subjunctive, 3rd person singular - may abound/overflow
• *epignōsei*: dative, feminine, singular - knowledge/full knowledge
• *aisthēsei*: dative, feminine, singular - perception/discernment

Word Meanings

• *proseuchomai*: I pray/I request
• *agapē*: love/charity
• *perisseuē*: may abound/may increase/may overflow
• *epignōsei*: knowledge/full knowledge/recognition
• *aisthēsei*: perception/discernment/judgment/moral insight

Referenced Verses

• 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
• Col 1:9 : 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
• 2 Pet 1:5-6 : 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
• Col 3:10 : 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
• 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
• Phlm 1:6 : 6 That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
• 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
• Eph 5:17 : 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
• Phil 3:15-16 : 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
• 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
• 2 Cor 8:7 : 7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
• Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
• Matt 13:31-33 : 31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. 33 Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
• Heb 5:14 : 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
• Job 17:9 : 9 The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
• 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.