5For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
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Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction. …
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.
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
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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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 .…
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