Philippians 1:17

World English Bible (2000)

but the latter out of love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the Good News.

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  • Phil 1:7 : 7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • 2 Tim 1:11-12 : 11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 12 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
  • 2 Tim 4:6-7 : 6 For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
  • Luke 21:14 : 14 Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,
  • Acts 22:1 : 1 "Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
  • Acts 26:1 : 1 Agrippa said to Paul, "You may speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!"
  • Rom 1:13-17 : 13 Now I don't desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles. 14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. 15 So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome. 16 For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. 17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."
  • 1 Cor 9:16-17 : 16 For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Good News. 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
  • Gal 2:7-8 : 7 but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision 8 (for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);

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  • Phil 1:7-16
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    89%

    7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

    8 For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

    9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

    10 so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

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

    12 Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;

    13 so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;

    14 and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

    15 Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

    16 The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

  • Phil 1:18-21
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    18 What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

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

    20 according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, 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 is in me.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

  • Phil 1:25-28
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    76%

    25 Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,

    26 that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

    27 Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

    28 and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

  • Phil 2:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

    17 Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

    18 In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

  • 2 Cor 11:10-12
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    10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

    11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

    12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

  • Eph 1:15
    75%

    15 For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

  • Rom 15:17
    74%

    17 I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

  • Gal 1:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.

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

  • Rom 1:15-16
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    74%

    15 So, as much as is in me, I am eager to preach the Good News to you also who are in Rome.

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

  • Gal 1:7
    74%

    7 and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 1:17
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    17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News--not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

  • 2 Tim 3:10
    73%

    10 But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

  • Phlm 1:13
    73%

    13 whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

  • 1 Cor 9:23
    73%

    23 Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

  • Phil 1:5
    73%

    5 for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

  • 2 Cor 8:8
    73%

    8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

  • Eph 6:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

    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 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the assembly;

  • Eph 3:1
    73%

    1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

  • Rom 15:20
    73%

    20 yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another's foundation.

  • 2 Cor 11:5
    73%

    5 For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

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

    17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

    18 What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

  • 2 Tim 2:9
    73%

    9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.

  • 2 Tim 1:11
    72%

    11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

  • 1 Cor 15:11
    72%

    11 Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.