Philippians

Chapters

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

The verses these writers stop at

• 4:6 Do not worry about anything. Instead, in everything, bring your requests to God through prayer and petition, with thanksgiving. 50
• 1:21 For me, living is Christ, and dying is gain. 36
• 2:13 For it is God who is at work in you, producing both the wanting and the doing, for his own good pleasure. 36
• 2:8 he humbled himself, becoming obedient all the way to death, death on a cross. 29
• 3:8 More than that, I count everything as loss because knowing Christ Jesus my Lord is worth far more than all of it. For his sake I have lost everything, and I count it all as dung, so that I may gain Christ 28
• 2:5 Among yourselves, think in the way that Christ Jesus also thought, 25
• 2:7 Rather, he emptied himself, taking on the form of a servant and coming to share the likeness of human beings. And when he was found in outward form as a human being, 25
• 1:6 Of this I am convinced: the one who started a good work in you will keep working at it until it is finished on the day of Christ Jesus. 24

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Where it is preached

1. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

   Prefatory Address to King Francis cites Phil. 1:15

   …which he had reared. Some preached the gospel through envy and strife, not sincerely (Phil. 1:15)—maliciously even—thinking to add affliction to his bonds. Elsewhere the gospel made…

2. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

   Man's Chief End cites Phil 1:11

   …ye bear much fruit.’ As it is dishonouring God to be barren, so fruitfulness honours him. Phil 1:11: ‘Filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are to the praise of his glory.’ We must…

3. Communion with God · John Owen

   That the saints have communion with God cites Phil. i. 5

   …of that worship of God which in the gospel is instituted; which the saints do enjoy, Phil. i. 5; which, as to the general kind of it, David so rejoices in, Ps. xlii. 4. In evil, was…

4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

   Obedience cites Phil 2: 8

   …in our obedience; therefore we must imitate Christ, who became obedient unto death. Phil 2: 8. The crown is set upon the head of perseverance. ‘He that keepeth my works unto the end…

5. Days of Heaven Upon Earth · A. B. Simpson

   January cites Phil. ii. 13

   …as I will, but as Thou wilt” (Matt. xxvi. 39). “To will and do of His good pleasure” (Phil. ii. 13). There are two attitudes in which our will should be given to God. First. We should have…

6. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

   Holiness cites Phil. iv. 13

   …live, I live by the faith of the Son of God.” Let us go and do likewise. (Heb. xii. 2; Phil. iv. 13; Gal. ii. 20.) May all who read these pages know these things by experience, and not by…