Philippians 1:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; The subject of his prayer (Philippians 1:4).

Your love - to Christ, producing love to Paul, Christ's minister, as it does, and also to one another, which it does not as much as it ought (Philippians 2:2; Philippians 4:2).

Knowledge, х epignoosei (G1922)] - 'full knowledge' of doctrinal and practical truth.

Judgment, х aistheesei (G144)] - spiritual perceptiveness or discernment: spiritual sight, hearing, feeling, taste. Christianity is a vigorous plant, not the hot-bed growth of enthusiasm. "In knowledge," etc., marks the sphere in which he prays that their "love" may increase. "Knowledge" and 'perception' guard love from being ill-judged.

Philippians 1:9

9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;d