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Philippians 1:9

Philippians 1:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

this: Philippians 1:4

your: Philippians 3:15-16; Job 17:9; Proverbs 4:18; Matthew 13:31-33; 2 Corinthians 8:7; 1 Thessalonians 3:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 4:9-10; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; Philemon 1:6; 1 Peter 1:22

in knowledge: 1 Corinthians 14:20; Ephesians 5:17; Colossians 1:9, Colossians 3:10; 2 Peter 1:5-6, 2 Peter 3:18

judgment: or, sense, Hebrews 5:14 *Gr.

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