🙏WEB · Philippians 1:10

What does Philippians 1:10 mean?

"so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;"

— Philippians 1:10 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

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For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

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This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

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so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

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being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;

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so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;

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