Philippians 1:5
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5 for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.(A)
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Philippians 4:14-15
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14 In any case, it was kind of you to share my distress.
15 You Philippians indeed know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone.(A)
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Hebrews 3:14
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14 For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.
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Philemon 17
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17 So if you consider me your partner, welcome him as you would welcome me.(A)
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Philippians 1:7
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7 It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because I hold you in my heart,[a] for all of you are my partners in God’s grace,[b] both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.(A)
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1 John 1:3
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3 what we have seen and heard we also declare to you so that you also may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.(A)
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Colossians 1:21-23
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21 And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled[a] in his fleshly body[b] through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,(A) 23 provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature[c] under heaven. I, Paul, became a minister of this gospel.(B)
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Ephesians 3:6
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6 that is, the gentiles have become fellow heirs, members of the same body, and sharers in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.(A)
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2 Corinthians 8:1
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Encouragement to Be Generous
8 We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia,
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Romans 15:26
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26 for Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to share their resources with the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.(A)
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Acts 16:12-40
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12 and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city for some days.(A) 13 On the Sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed[a] there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. 14 A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. 15 When she and her household were baptized, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come and stay at my home.” And she prevailed upon us.(B)
Paul and Silas in Prison
16 One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a female slave who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling.(C) 17 While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you[b] the way of salvation.”(D) 18 She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.
19 But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.(E) 20 When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men, these Jews, are disturbing our city(F) 21 and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us, being Romans, to adopt or observe.” 22 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods.(G) 23 After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely.(H) 24 Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.(I)
25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.(J) 26 Suddenly there was an earthquake so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.(K) 27 When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped.(L) 28 But Paul shouted in a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” 29 The jailer[c] called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 Then he brought them outside and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”(M) 31 They answered, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”(N) 32 They spoke the word of the Lord[d] to him and to all who were in his house. 33 At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. 34 He brought them up into the house and set food before them, and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.(O)
35 When morning came, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.” 36 And the jailer reported the message to Paul, saying, “The magistrates sent word to let you go; therefore come out now and go in peace.”(P) 37 But Paul replied, “They have beaten us in public, uncondemned, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison, and now are they going to discharge us in secret? Certainly not! Let them come and take us out themselves.”(Q) 38 The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,(R) 39 so they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city.(S) 40 After leaving the prison they went to Lydia’s home, and when they had seen and encouraged the brothers and sisters there, they departed.(T)
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1 John 1:7
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7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.(A)
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2 Peter 1:1
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Salutation
1 Simeon[a] Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have received a faith as equally honorable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
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- 1.1 Other ancient authorities read Simon
Philippians 2:12
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Shining as Lights in the World
12 Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work on your own salvation with fear and trembling,(A)
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1 Corinthians 1:9
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9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the partnership of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.(A)
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Romans 12:13
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13 Contribute to the needs of the saints; pursue hospitality to strangers.(A)
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Romans 11:17
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17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted among the others to share the rich root[a] of the olive tree,
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Acts 2:42
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42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
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Ephesians 2:19-22
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19 So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God,(A) 20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone;[a](B) 21 in him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord,(C) 22 in whom you also are built together spiritually[b] into a dwelling place for God.
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