Philippians 1:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Philippians 1:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 3:12
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
Colossians 1:9
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 Peter 1:5-6
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; …
Philemon 1:6
That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

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Commentary

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

(vv. 9-11)

These verses contain the prayers he put up for them. Paul often let his friends know what it was he begged of God for them, that they might know what to beg for themselves and be directed in their own prayers, and that they might be encouraged to hope they should receive from God the quickening, strengthening, everlasting, comforting grace, which so powerful an intercessor as Paul asked of God for…

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

(vv. 9)

9. The subject of his prayer for them (Php 1:4). your love--to Christ, producing love not only to Paul, Christ’s minister, as it did, but also to one another, which it did not altogether as much as it ought (Php 2:2; 4:2). knowledge--of doctrinal and practical truth. judgment--rather, “perception”; “perceptive sense.” Spiritual perceptiveness: spiritual sight, spiritual hearing, spiritual feeling,…