Philippians 1:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

But the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.

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  • Phil 1:7 : 7 Just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vanity; but in humility let each consider others better than themselves.
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, and do not lie), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • 2 Tim 1:11-12 : 11 To which I am appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that day.
  • 2 Tim 4:6-7 : 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. I pray that it may not be held against them.
  • Luke 21:14 : 14 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand what you shall answer:
  • Acts 22:1 : 1 Men, brothers, and fathers, listen to my defense which I now present to you.
  • Acts 26:1 : 1 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand, and answered for himself:
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you are out of your mind; much learning is driving you mad.
  • Rom 1:13-17 : 13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, (but was hindered until now,) that I might have some fruit among you also, just as among other Gentiles. 14 I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise. 15 So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are at Rome also. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith.'
  • 1 Cor 9:16-17 : 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
  • Gal 2:7-8 : 7 But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised was committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter; 8 (For He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked mightily in me toward the Gentiles:)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Phil 1:7-16
    10 verses
    89%

    7 Just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.

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

    9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

    10 So that you may approve things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ;

    11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

    12 But I want you to know, brethren, that the things which happened to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel;

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

    14 And most of the brethren in the Lord, having become confident by my chains, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

    15 Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from goodwill:

    16 The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains:

  • Phil 1:18-21
    4 verses
    85%

    18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.

    19 For I know that this will turn out for my salvation through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

    20 According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

    21 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

  • Phil 1:30
    76%

    30 Having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear to be in me.

  • Phlm 1:8
    76%

    8 Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you to do what is fitting,

  • Phil 1:25-28
    4 verses
    76%

    25 And being confident of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith;

    26 That your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again.

    27 Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

    28 And not in any way terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a sign of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

  • Phil 2:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor labored in vain.

    17 Yes, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

    18 For the same reason, you also should rejoice and rejoice with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

    11 Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

    12 But what I do, I will continue to do, that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast.

  • Eph 1:15
    75%

    15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love for all the saints,

  • Rom 15:17
    74%

    17 Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus in what pertains to God.

  • Gal 1:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

    11 But I make known to you, brothers, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

  • Rom 1:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

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

    16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to everyone who believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

  • Gal 1:7
    74%

    7 Which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
    74%

    17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with the wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
    73%

    10 But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

  • Phlm 1:13
    73%

    13 Whom I wished to keep with me, so that he might minister to me in your place in my chains for the gospel:

  • 1 Cor 9:23
    73%

    23 And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it with you.

  • Phil 1:5
    73%

    5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

  • 2 Cor 8:8
    73%

    8 I speak not by commandment, but as a test of the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.

  • Eph 6:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,

    20 For which I am an ambassador in chains, that in it I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.

  • Col 1:24
    73%

    24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of his body, which is the church:

  • Eph 3:1
    73%

    1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

  • Rom 15:20
    73%

    20 Yes, I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man's foundation:

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    73%

    5 For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.

  • 1 Cor 9:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

    18 What then is my reward? That when I preach the gospel, I may present the gospel of Christ without charge, that I may not abuse my authority in the gospel.

  • 2 Tim 2:9
    73%

    9 For which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.

  • 2 Tim 1:11
    72%

    11 To which I am appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
    72%

    11 Therefore, whether it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

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