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NASB | Philippians 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Philippians 1:6 I am convinced and confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will [continue to] perfect and complete it until the day of Christ Jesus [the time of His return]. [Rom 14:10] |
Bible Question:
Phillippians 4:8-13 can someone list and explain everything the passage says about the concept "things" and how can i apply the discovery to my life? |
Bible Answer: And the continuation from Barnes' Notes on the New Testament.. "Whatsoever things are pure. Chaste--in thought, and feeling, and in the intercourse between the sexes. 1 Tim 5:2. Whatsoever things are lovely. The word here used means, properly, what is dear to any one; then what is pleasing. Here it means what is amiable--such a temper of mind that one can love it; or such as to be agreeable to others. A Christian should not be sour, crabbed, and irritable in his temper for nothing almost tends so much to injure the cause of religion as a temper always chafed; a brow morose and stern; an eye that is severe and unkind, and a disposition to find fault with everything. And yet it is to be regretted that there are many persons, who make no pretensions to piety, who far surpass many professors of religion in the virtue here commended. A sour and crabbed temper in a professor of religion will undo all the good that he attempts to do. Whatsoever things are of good report. That is, whatsoever is truly reputable in the world at large. There are actions which all men agree in commending, and which in all ages and countries are regarded as virtues. Courtesy, urbanity, kindness, respect for parents, purity between brothers and sisters, are among those virtues--and the Christian should be a pattern and an example in them all. His usefulness depends much more on the cultivation of these virtues than is commonly supposed. If there be any virtue. If there is anything truly virtuous. Paul did not suppose that he had given a full catalogue of the virtues which he would have cultivated. He therefore adds, that if there was anything else that had the nature of true virtue in it, they should be careful to cultivate that also. The Christian should be a pattern and example of every virtue. And if there be any praise. Anything worthy of praise, or that ought to be praised. Think on these things. Let them be the object of your careful attention and study, so as to practise them. Think what they are; think on the obligation to observe them; think on the influence which they would have on the world around you. (f) "true" Eph 4:25 (1) "honest" "venerable" (g) "honest" 2 Cor 8:21 (a) "just" Deut 16:20, Isa 26:7 (b) "pure" James 3:17 (c) "lovely" 1 Cor 13 (d) "if there be any virtue" Col 4:5, Heb 11:2 (e) "virtue" 2 Pet 1:3,4 (f) "praise" Rom 13:3" Part 2 of 2 Blessings to you, Makarios |