"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and {in} all judgment; {judgment: or, sense}" — Philippians 1:9

Philippians 1:9 · KJV

“And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and {in} all judgment; {judgment: or, sense}”

— Philippians 1:9

Verse 8

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

Verse 10

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; {approve: or, try} {are...: or, differ}

Philippians 1 — Context

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. {I have...: or, ye have me in your heart} {of my...: or, with me of grace}

For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and {in} all judgment; {judgment: or, sense}

That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; {approve: or, try} {are...: or, differ}

Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Cross References

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:

2 Corinthians 8:7

Therefore, as ye abound in every {thing, in} faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and {in} all diligence, and {in} your love to us, {see} that ye abound in this grace also.

1 Thessalonians 4:9-10

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

1 Peter 1:22

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, {see that ye} love one another with a pure heart fervently: