Verš 1
Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
1Sol 2:19 - For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
Verš 3
And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Ex 32:32 - Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
Ž 69:28 - Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Zjv 3:5 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Zjv 20:12 - And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Zjv 21:27 - And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Verš 4
Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
1Sol 5:6 - Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Verš 5
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
1Kor 10:11 - Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Heb 10:25 - Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Verš 6
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Ž 55:22 - Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Mt 6:25 - Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
1Tim 6:8 - And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
1Tim 6:17 - Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
1Pt 5:7 - Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Verš 7
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Jn 14:27 - Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Rim 5:1 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
1Kor 2:14 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Verš 8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Rim 13:13 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1Sol 4:3 - For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Verš 10
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
2Kor 11:9 - And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
Verš 11
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
1Tim 6:6 - But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Verš 12
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
1Kor 4:11 - Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
2Kor 11:27 - In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Verš 15
Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.
2Kor 11:9 - And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
Verš 18
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
Heb 13:16 - But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Flp 4,1 - "Moja koruna" – doslova "môj veniec" – symbol slávy a odmeny.
Flp 4,2 - Obe sú ženské mená. Nič bližšie o nich nevieme. Pavol ich vyzýval, aby žili vo svornosti, ako to naznačuje aj význam ich gréckych mien.
Flp 4,3 - "Spolupracovník" (gr. sýzygos), čo niektorí považujú za vlastné meno Syzygos. – Klement – podľa niektorých ide o Klementa I., rímskeho pápeža. Výraz "kniha života" je častý biblický obraz (Ex 32, 32 n.; Ž 69, 29; Dan 12, 1; Zjv 3, 5) a znamená prijatie do Božej priazne, milosti.
Flp 4,5 - Pán je blízko, pretože isto príde.
Flp 4,11 - Pavol sa usiloval vyžiť z toho, čo mal. Materiálnu podporu prijal jedine od Filipanov, ktorých mal osobitne rád.
Flp 4,12 - "Naučil" – doslovne: stal som sa zasväteným, čo znamená: Naučil som sa to, čo všetci nepoznajú.
Flp 4,15 - Porov. Sk 17, 1–10. Pavol tu používa výrazy zo života obchodníkov, aby zdôraznil výmenu duchovných a hmotných dobier medzi ním a Filipanmi.
Flp 4,21 - "Svätí" sú kresťania zasvätení Bohu a Kristovi životom svätosti.
Flp 4,22 - Výraz "z cisárovho domu" tu môže znamenať aj zamestnancov v dome miestodržiteľa, ktorý bol v každom väčšom meste, pravda, ak list Pavol napísal v Efeze.
