Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Philippians 1:7

“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.”

Philippians 1:7 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Philippians 1:7, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Philippians 1. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

7 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.

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

9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 2 Corinthians 7:3I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.
  • Philippians 1:5For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
  • Colossians 4:18The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
  • 2 Timothy 2:9Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
  • Ephesians 3:1For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
  • Ephesians 6:20For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
  • Philippians 4:14Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
  • Acts 16:23And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
  • Philippians 1:16The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
  • Acts 20:23Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
  • Acts 21:33Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
  • 2 Timothy 1:8Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
  • Galatians 5:6For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
  • Hebrews 6:9But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

More to meet God in Philippians

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How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.