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New Living Translation

Philippians 1:3

Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Benedictions;   Fellowship;   Intercession;   Love;   Peace;   Thankfulness;   Scofield Reference Index - Gospel;   Holy Spirit;   Thompson Chain Reference - Church;   Fellowship, Divine;   Friendship;   Friendship-Friendlessness;   Saints;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ministers;   Missionaries, All Christians Should Be as;   Thanksgiving;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Servant;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Conversation;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Philippians;   Righteousness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Philippians, Epistle to;   Prayer;   Quotations;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Aeon;   Aristarchus ;   Cerinthus;   Growth Increase ;   Peace;   Peace (2);   Philippians Epistle to the;   Thanksgiving;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Bishop;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prayer;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Philippians, the Epistle to;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for January 21;   Every Day Light - Devotion for December 29;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I thank God every time I remember you.
Revised Standard Version
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
I thanke my God with all remembraunce of you
Hebrew Names Version
I thank my God whenever I remember you,
New American Standard Bible
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
New Century Version
I thank my God every time I remember you,
Update Bible Version
I thank my God on all my remembrance of you,
Webster's Bible Translation
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
English Standard Version
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
World English Bible
I thank my God whenever I remember you,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
I thank my God upon every mention of you,
Weymouth's New Testament
I thank my God at my every remembrance of you--
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I do thankyngis to my God
English Revised Version
I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,
Berean Standard Bible
I thank my God every time I remember you.
Contemporary English Version
Every time I think of you, I thank my God.
Amplified Bible
I thank my God in every remembrance of you,
American Standard Version
I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,
Bible in Basic English
I give praise to my God at every memory of you,
Complete Jewish Bible
I thank my God every time I think of you.
Darby Translation
I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you,
International Standard Version
I thank my God every time I remember you,every time you remember me">[fn]Romans 1:8-9; 1 Corinthians 1:4; Ephesians 1:15-16; Colossians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:3;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
I offer thanks unto Aloha upon the remembrance of you constantly,
Murdock Translation
I thank my God at the constant recollection of you,
King James Version (1611)
I thanke my God vpon euery remembrance of you,
New Life Bible
I thank God for you whenever I think of you.
New Revised Standard
I thank my God every time I remember you,
Geneva Bible (1587)
I thanke my God, hauing you in perfect memorie,
George Lamsa Translation
I give thanks to my God for your steady remembrance of me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I am giving thanks unto my God, on occasion of all my remembrance of you,
Douay-Rheims Bible
I give thanks to my God in every remembrance of you:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I thanke my God, with all remembraunce of you,
Good News Translation
I thank my God for you every time I think of you;
Christian Standard Bible®
I give thanks to my God for every remembrance of you,
King James Version
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Lexham English Bible
I give thanks to my God upon my every remembrance of you,
Literal Translation
I thank my God on all the remembrance of you,
Young's Literal Translation
I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I thanke my God, as oft as I remebre you
Mace New Testament (1729)
and I
THE MESSAGE
Every time you cross my mind, I break out in exclamations of thanks to God. Each exclamation is a trigger to prayer. I find myself praying for you with a glad heart. I am so pleased that you have continued on in this with us, believing and proclaiming God's Message, from the day you heard it right up to the present. There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.
New English Translation
I thank my God every time I remember you.
New King James Version
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Simplified Cowboy Version
Every time y'all cross my mind I give thanks to God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,
Legacy Standard Bible
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

Contextual Overview

3 Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. 4 Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy, 5 for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you first heard it until now. 6 And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I thank: Romans 1:8, Romans 1:9, Romans 6:17, 1 Corinthians 1:4

upon: Ephesians 1:15, Ephesians 1:16, Colossians 1:3, Colossians 1:4, 1 Thessalonians 1:2, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 3:9, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, 2 Timothy 1:3, Philemon 1:4, Philemon 1:5

remembrance: or, mention

Reciprocal: Ephesians 5:20 - thanks Philippians 2:26 - he longed Philippians 4:10 - I 1 Timothy 2:1 - and

Cross-References

Job 36:30
See how he spreads the lightning around him and how it lights up the depths of the sea.
Job 38:19
"Where does light come from, and where does darkness go?
Psalms 33:6
The Lord merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born.
Psalms 33:9
For when he spoke, the world began! It appeared at his command.
Psalms 97:11
Light shines on the godly, and joy on those whose hearts are right.
Psalms 104:2
You are dressed in a robe of light. You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;
Psalms 118:27
The Lord is God, shining upon us. Take the sacrifice and bind it with cords on the altar.
Psalms 148:5
Let every created thing give praise to the Lord , for he issued his command, and they came into being.
Isaiah 45:7
I create the light and make the darkness. I send good times and bad times. I, the Lord , am the one who does these things.
Isaiah 60:19
"No longer will you need the sun to shine by day, nor the moon to give its light by night, for the Lord your God will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I thank my God,.... After the inscription and salutation follows a thanksgiving, the object of which is God; to whom thanks is to be given at the remembrance of his name, and the perfections of his nature, and for all his mercies, temporal and spiritual. The apostle expresses his propriety and interest in him, calling him "my God"; thereby distinguishing him from all others, the nominal and fictitious gods of the Gentiles, and the idols and lusts of men's hearts; he was the God whom he served in the Gospel, by whom he was sent, and from whom he received all his possessions, and to whom he was accountable. He had a special, particular, covenant interest in him, had knowledge of it, and faith in it; and therefore could draw nigh to God with freedom, use confidence, plead promises, expect favours, and do all he did, whether in a way of prayer, or praise in faith, and therefore was acceptable unto God. This work of thanksgiving he was often employed in on account of these Philippians, even, says he,

upon every remembrance of you; that is, as often as I remember you, or make mention of you to God at the throne of grace, it being a customary thing with the apostle to mention by name the several churches, the care of which was upon him, in his prayers to God; see Romans 1:9; and so he used to mention this church; and whenever he did, it was with thankfulness. The Arabic version reads it, "for", or "concerning all your remembrance"; meaning of himself, and as if the sense was, that he gave thanks to God for their remembrance of him at all times, and particularly at that time, by sending him relief in his present circumstances. But the former sense is preferable.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you - Margin, “mention.” The Greek word means, “recollection, remembrance.” But this recollection may have been suggested either by his own reflections on what he had seen, or by what he had heard of them by others, or by the favors which they conferred on him reminding him of them. The meaning is, that as often as he thought on them, from whatever cause, he had occasion of thankfulness. He says that he thanked his God, intimating that the conduct of the Philippians was a proof of the favor of God to him; that is, he regarded their piety as one of the tokens of the favor of God to his own soul - for in producing that piety he had been mainly instrumental.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Philippians 1:3. Upon every remembrance — As often as you recur to my mind, so often do I thank God for the great work wrought among you. Some think that the words should be translated, for all your kind remembrance; referring to their kind attention to the apostle, in supplying his wants, &c.


 
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