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.
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Gill's Exposition
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all,.... Some connect these words with Phi 1:3; as if the apostle's sense was, that it became him to be thus affected to them, and mindful of them in his…
Barnes' Notes
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all - “There is a reason why I should cherish this hope of you, and this confident expectation that you will be saved. That reason is found in the…
Adam Clarke
It is meet for me to think this - Εστι δικαιον· It is just that I should think so, because I have you in my heart - you live in my warmest love and most affectionate remembrance.
Inasmuch as both in…
The apostle expresses the ardent affection he had for them, and his concern for their spiritual welfare: I have you in my heart, Phi 1:7. He loved them as his own soul, and they lay near his heart. He…
Cambridge Bible
meet Lit., and better, just, right.
for me The pronoun is emphatic in the Greek; "for me, whatever may be right for others."
to think this Better, to be of this mind, to feel the thankfulness and joy…
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