Philippians 1:5

Philippians 1:5

Thankfulness and Prayer

3 ^aI thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

4 always in ^aevery prayer of mine making request for you all with joy,

5 ^afor your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,

6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun ^aa good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;

7 just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as 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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Ground of his "thanking God" (Philippians 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 (I Corinthians 1:9) and of the Father (I John 1:3) in the Gospel, by becoming partakers of "the fellowship of the Holy Ghost" (II Corinthians 13:14), and exercise that fellowship by acts of communion, not only the communion of the Lord's Supper, but holy liberality to brethren and ministers (Philippians 4:10, Philippians 4:15, "communicated . . . concerning giving"; II Corinthians 9:13; Galatians 6:6; Hebrews 13:16, "To communicate forget not").

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