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Philippians 1:9

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This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

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Verse 9. That your charity, and so forth It is worthy of remark, that Saint Paul does not beg that the Philippians may enjoy temporal blessings, but that they may be rewarded with an increase of spiritual favours; (Cal.) and as he remarks in the succeeding verses, that they may be filled with the fruits of justice.

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