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Contemporary English Version

Philippians 2:18

In the same way, you should be glad and rejoice with me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Paul;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Immortality;   Thessalonians, First and Second, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Philippians, the Epistle to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Philippians;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Philippians, Epistle to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Cheerfulness ;   Ephesians Epistle to the;   Fellowship (2);   Freedom of the Will;   Philippians Epistle to the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In the same way you should also be glad and rejoice with me.
King James Version (1611)
For the same cause also doe ye ioy, and reioyce with me.
King James Version
For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
English Standard Version
Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
New American Standard Bible
You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
New Century Version
You also should be happy and full of joy with me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
You too, I urge you, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
Legacy Standard Bible
And you also, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
Berean Standard Bible
So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Likewise, you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
Darby Translation
In like manner do *ye* also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
Easy-to-Read Version
You also should be glad and share your joy with me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the same cause also be ye glad, and reioyce with me.
George Lamsa Translation
Likewise you also must be happy and rejoice with me.
Good News Translation
In the same way, you too must be glad and share your joy with me.
Lexham English Bible
And in the same way also you rejoice and rejoice with me.
Literal Translation
And you also rejoice in the same and rejoice with me.
Amplified Bible
You too, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
American Standard Version
and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
Bible in Basic English
And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.
Hebrew Names Version
In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
International Standard Version
In the same way, you also should rejoice and share your joy with me.
Etheridge Translation
so also you be glad and rejoice with me.
Murdock Translation
And so also do ye rejoice and exult with me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the same cause also do ye reioyce, and reioyce with me.
English Revised Version
and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
World English Bible
In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For the same cause joy ye likewise, and rejoice with me.
Weymouth's New Testament
And I bid you also share my gladness, and congratulate me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the same thing haue ye ioye, and thanke ye me.
Update Bible Version
and in the same manner do you also joy, and rejoice with me.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
New English Translation
And in the same way you also should be glad and rejoice together with me.
New King James Version
For the same reason you also be glad and rejoice with me.
New Living Translation
Yes, you should rejoice, and I will share your joy.
New Life Bible
You must be happy and share your joy with me also.
New Revised Standard
and in the same way you also must be glad and rejoice with me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For the same cause, moreover, do, ye also, rejoice, yea rejoice together with me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And for the selfsame thing, do you also rejoice and congratulate with me.
Revised Standard Version
Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For the same cause also reioyce ye and reioyce ye with me.
Young's Literal Translation
because of this do ye also rejoice and joy with me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
be ye glad also, and reioyce ye with me.
Mace New Testament (1729)
and you too should be glad and congratulate me upon that account.
Simplified Cowboy Version
You too should be happy with me.

Contextual Overview

14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing. 15 Then you will be the pure and innocent children of God. You live among people who are crooked and evil, but you must not do anything that they can say is wrong. Try to shine as lights among the people of this world, 16 as you hold firmly to the message that gives life. Then on the day when Christ returns, I can take pride in you. I can also know that my work and efforts were not useless. 17 Your faith in the Lord and your service are like a sacrifice offered to him. And my own blood may have to be poured out with the sacrifice. If this happens, I will be glad and rejoice with you. 18 In the same way, you should be glad and rejoice with me. 19 I want to be encouraged by news about you. So I hope the Lord Jesus will soon let me send Timothy to you. 20 I don't have anyone else who cares about you as much as he does. 21 The others think only about what interests them and not about what concerns Christ Jesus. 22 But you know what kind of person Timothy is. He has worked with me like a son in spreading the good news. 23 I hope to send him to you, as soon as I find out what is going to happen to me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

do: Philippians 3:1, Philippians 4:4, Ephesians 3:13, James 1:2-4

Reciprocal: Romans 5:3 - but we Romans 12:15 - Rejoice 1 Corinthians 13:6 - rejoiceth 2 Corinthians 12:10 - I take Colossians 1:24 - rejoice

Cross-References

Genesis 1:31
God looked at what he had done. All of it was very good! Evening came and then morning—that was the sixth day.
Genesis 2:7
The Lord God took a handful of soil and made a man. God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God placed all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees in the garden. Two other trees were in the middle of the garden. One of the trees gave life—the other gave the power to know the difference between right and wrong.
Genesis 2:11
The first one is the Pishon River that flows through the land of Havilah,
Genesis 2:12
where pure gold, rare perfumes, and precious stones are found.
Genesis 2:13
The second is the Gihon River that winds through Ethiopia.
Genesis 3:12
"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."
Ruth 3:1
One day, Naomi said to Ruth: It's time I found you a husband, who will give you a home and take care of you.
Proverbs 18:22
A man's greatest treasure is his wife— she is a gift from the Lord .
1 Corinthians 7:36
But suppose you are engaged to someone old enough to be married, and you want her so much that all you can think about is getting married. Then go ahead and marry. There is nothing wrong with that.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the same cause also do ye joy and rejoice with me. He would not have them be sorrowful, should they hear of his death for the sake of the Gospel, and of his blood being poured out in such a cause, since it was as a libation on their faith, and for the confirmation of it, and would be gain to Christ, and his interest, and to the apostle also: and therefore they should be so far from indulging grief and sorrow on that account, that they should rather joy and rejoice with him, who was ready to be offered up, or poured out; since he had run out his race, and that not in vain, but to so good a purpose, and especially among them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 18. 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 honour.


 
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