Philippians 2:18
in Philippians 2So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
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ASV
and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
KJV
For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
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This verse in Philippians 2
Commentary
10 notes on this verseHe means, "Being prepared to die for you, so long as I can serve you and strengthen your faith, I rejoice and am glad for all of you. So therefore you rejoice and be glad with me, so that we may show equal concern for …
This site's exposition
poured out like a drink offering
on Philippians 2:17-18
The phrase poured out like a drink offering translates spendomai, the libation poured over a burning sacrifice. The Philippians' faith is the sacrifice and service, and Paul's possible execution the libation on it.
This site's exposition
glad and rejoice with me
Paul asks the church to answer his joy with their own. If his life is poured out for their faith, they are to rejoice with him over it. Marius Victorinus reads the two verses as one exchange of joy between a prisoner ready to die and the church he serves.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"And in the same manner do ye also joy and rejoice with me." Why dost thou rejoice with them? Seest thou that he shows that it is their duty to rejoice? On the one hand then, I rejoice in being made a libation; on the other, I rejoice with you, in having presented a sacrifice; "and in the same manner do ye also joy and rejoice with me," that I am offered up; "rejoice with me," "who rejoice in myself." So that the death of the just is no subject for tears, but for joy. If they rejoice, we should rejoice with them. For it is misplaced for us to weep, while they rejoice. "But," it is urged, "we long for our wonted intercourse." This is a mere pretext and excuse; and that it is so, mark what he enjoins: "Rejoice with me, and joy." Dost thou miss thy wonted intercourse? If thou wert thyself destined to remain here, there would be reason in what thou sayest; but if after a brief space thou wilt overtake him who has departed, what is that intercourse which thou dost seek? for it is only when he is forever severed from him that a man misses the society of another, but if he will go the same way that thou wilt go, what is the intercourse which thou longest for? Why do we not bewail all that are upon foreign travel? Do we not just a little, and cease after the first or the second day? If thou longest for thy wonted intercourse with him, weep so far only.
The Medieval Church2 voices
Rejoice that you yourselves also have been offered as a sacrifice. "Rejoice with me." I am bringing myself as a sacrifice, and I rejoice in this.
With whom you rejoice in this too; hence he says, likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me: "Rejoice with those who rejoice" (Rom. 12:15).
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me.
It is the will of God that good Christians should be much in rejoicing; and those who are happy in good ministers have a great deal of reason to joy and rejoice with them. If the minister loves the people, and is willing to spend and be spent for their welfare, the people have reason to love the minister and to joy and rejoice with him.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
For the same cause also do ye joy - Should I be thus offered, as I shall rejoice in it, do ye also rejoice that I am counted worthy of this high honor.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
For the same cause - Because we are united, and what affects one of us should affect both. Do ye joy, and rejoice with me - That is, “do not grieve at my death. Be not overwhelmed with sorrow, but let your hearts be filled with congratulation. It will be a privilege and a pleasure thus to die.” This is a noble sentiment, and one that could have been uttered only by a heroic and generous mind - by a man who will not dread death, and who felt that it was honorable thus to die Doddridge has illustrated the sentiment by an appropriate reference to a fact stated by Plutarch. A brave Athenian returned from the battle of Marathon, bleeding with wounds and exhausted, and rushed into the presence of the magistrates, and uttered only these two words - χαιρετε chairete, χαιρομεν chairomen - “rejoice, we rejoice,” and immediately expired. So Paul felt that there was occasion for him, and for all whom he loved, to rejoice, if he was permitted to die in the cause of others, and in such a manner that his death would benefit the world.
The words behind it
9 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| τὸ | to | <the> | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| δὲ | de | And | G1161 → | 2765 times |
| αὐτὸ | auto | likewise | G846 → | 5565 times |
| καὶ | kai | also | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| ὑμεῖς | humeis | you yourselves | G4771 → | 2973 times |
| χαίρετε | chairete | do be glad | G5463 → | 74 times |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| συγχαίρετέ | sugchairete | do rejoice with | G4796 → | |
| μοι.¶ | moi | me. | G3165 → | 1936 times |
τὸ<the>
toG3588 →19766 times
δὲAnd
deG1161 →2765 times
αὐτὸlikewise
autoG846 →5565 times
καὶalso
kaiG2532 →9120 times
ὑμεῖςyou yourselves
humeisG4771 →2973 times
χαίρετεdo be glad
chaireteG5463 →74 times
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
συγχαίρετέdo rejoice with
sugchaireteG4796 →
μοι.¶me.
moiG3165 →1936 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Philippians 4:4Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
it leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18
Rejoice at all times.
- Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
- James 1:2–4
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,
- Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
- Matthew 5:12
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18
Through
Philippians 3:1Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.
it leads to
- Philippians 4:4
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Romans 5:11
Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
- Philippians 4:4
Through
Ephesians 3:13So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
it leads to
- 2 Thessalonians 3:13
But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:13
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About Philippians
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gaius Marius Victorinus, EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS 2.17-18; John Chrysostom, Homily on Philippians 8; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Philippians and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Philippians.