Quotes about Philippians

Justification is not how someone becomes a Christian. It is the declaration that they have become a Christian. And the total context of this doctrine, here in Philippians 3, is that of the expectation - not of a final salvation in which the individual is abstracted from the present world, but of the final new heavens and new earth, as the Lord comes from the heavenly realm to transform the earthly

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

In every prayer for all of you, I always pray with joy,

because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,

Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have actually served to advance the gospel.

The latter do so in love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.

What then is the issue? Just this: that in every way, whether by false motives or true, Christ is preached. And in this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

so that through my coming to you again your exultation in Christ Jesus will resound on account of me.

since you are encountering the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,