Philippians 2:16 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁶ holding fast the Word of Life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I did not run in vain nor labor for nothing.

²⁷ “What I tell you in the dark, say in the light; and what you hear in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

⁸ “Also I say to you, whoever claims me before men, the Son of Man will also claim him before the angels of God.

⁶³ The Spirit is the One who makes alive; the flesh does not benefit anything. The words that I speak to you are spirit, are life.

⁶⁸ So Simon Peter answered Him: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

²⁶ “Men, brothers, sons of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God: to you the word of this salvation has been sent.

⁸ So what does it say? “The message is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the message of faith that we proclaim): ⁹ That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord”, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ Because with the heart one believes into righteousness, and with the mouth one promises into salvation. ¹¹ Because the Scripture says: “Everyone who believes on Him will never be put to shame”; ¹² because there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, since the same Lord of all is rich to all who call upon Him; ¹³ because: “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.” ¹⁴ How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe on Him of whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without someone proclaiming it? ¹⁵ And how will they proclaim unless they are sent? As it is written: “How timely is the arrival of those who bring good news of peace, of those who announce the good things.” ¹⁶ (However, they did not all obey the gospel; because Isaiah says: “LORD, who has believed our message?”)

²⁶ So that is how I ‘run’, with a definite goal; that is how I fight, with well-aimed blows.

¹⁴ (as indeed some of you have acknowledged) that we are your boast, just as you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

² I went on the basis of a revelation and set before them [the main apostles] the Gospel that I proclaim among the nations/Gentiles.—Now I did this privately to those with influence, lest somehow I might run, or had run, in vain.

¹¹ I fear for you, lest somehow I have labored over you in vain.

²⁶ so that your rejoicing over me may be more abundant in Christ Jesus, through my coming to you again. ²⁷ Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I may hear about you that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together for the faith of the Gospel with one soul,

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Is it not precisely you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?

⁵ Yes, that’s why, no longer standing it, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had successfully tempted you and our labor come to be for nothing.

¹⁵ Make every effort to render yourself approved by God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, handling the Word of the Truth correctly. ¹⁶ But shun godless, empty chatter, because those who do it will become increasingly godless, ¹⁷ and their word will spread like gangrene—among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

¹² Because the Word of God is living and efficient, and sharper than any two-edged sword, actually penetrating to the point of separating soul and spirit, joints and marrow; in fact, it is able to evaluate a heart’s reflections and intentions.

²³ having been begotten again, not from a corruptible seed but an incorruptible, through the living Word of God that remains valid forever.

¹ That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have witnessed with our eyes, that which we contemplated and our hands handled with reference to the word of the Life

¹⁷ Both the Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ And let whoever hears say, ‘Come!’ And let whoever thirsts come; whoever wants to, let him take the water of life free of charge.