Philippians 1:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Philippians 1:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Philippians 4:14-15
Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. …
Philippians 1:7
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
Hebrews 3:14
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Philemon 1:17
If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
Acts 16:12-40
And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-6)

The apostle proceeds after the inscription and benediction to thanksgiving for the saints at Philippi. He tells them what it was he thanked God for, upon their account. Observe here, I. Paul remembered them: he bore them much in his thoughts; and though they were out of sight, and he was at a distance from them, yet they were not out of his mind: or, Upon every mention of you — epi pase te mneia.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Ground of his “thanking God” (Php 1:3): “For your (continued) fellowship (that is, real spiritual participation) in (literally, ‘in regard to’) the Gospel from the first day (of your becoming partakers in it) until now.” Believers have the fellowship of the Son of God (1Co 1:9) and of the Father (1Jo 1:3) in the Gospel, by becoming partakers of “the fellowship of the Holy Ghost” (2Co 13:14), an…