Philippians 2:17

Easy To Read Version

Your faith makes you give your lives as a sacrifice {\cf2\super [13]} in serving God. Maybe I will have to offer my own blood (death) with your sacrifice. But if that happens, I will be happy and full of joy with all of you.

Cross References

Numbers 28:6

(They started giving the daily offerings at Mount Sinai. They were offerings made by fire. Their smell pleased the Lord.)

Numbers 28:7

The people must also give the drink offerings that go with the offerings made by fire. They must give 1 quart [329] of wine with every lamb. Pour that drink offering {on the altar} in the Holy Place. This is a gift to the Lord.

Acts 20:24

I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I finish my work. I want to finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do—to tell people the Good News about God’s grace (kindness).

Acts 21:13

But Paul said, “Why are you crying? Why are you making me so sad? I am ready to be tied in Jerusalem. I am also ready to die for the name of the Lord Jesus!”

Romans 12:1

So brothers and sisters, I beg you to do something. God has shown us great mercy. So offer your lives as a living sacrifice {\cf2\super [130]} to God. Your offering must be only for God and will be pleasing to him. This offering of yourselves is the spiritual way for you to worship (serve) God.

Romans 15:16

to be a minister of Christ Jesus. God made me a minister to help the non-Jewish people. I serve God by teaching his Good News. {\cf2\super [151]} I do this so that the non-Jewish people may be an offering that God will accept. Those people are made holy {\cf2\super [152]} for God by the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [153]}

2 Corinthians 12:15

So I am happy to give everything I have for you. I will even give myself for you. If I love you more, will you love me less?

2 Corinthians 4:12

So death is working in us, but life is working in you.

2 Corinthians 6:10

We have much sadness, but we are always rejoicing. We are poor, but we are making many people rich \{in faith\}. We have nothing, but really we have everything.

2 Corinthians 7:4

I feel very sure of you. I am very proud of you. You give me much courage. And in all of our troubles I have great joy.

Philippians 1:20

The thing I want and hope for is that I will not fail Christ in anything. I hope that I will have the courage now, like always, to show the greatness of Christ in my life here on earth. I want to do that if I die or if I live.

Philippians 2:18

You also should be happy and full of joy with me.

Philippians 2:30

He should be honored because he almost died for the work of Christ. He put his life in danger so that he could help me. This was help that you could not give me.

Philippians 4:18

I have all the things I need. I have even more than I need. I have all I need because Epaphroditus brought your gift to me. Your gift is like a sweet-smelling sacrifice {\cf2\super [24]} offered to God. God accepts that sacrifice and it pleases him.

1 Thessalonians 2:8

We loved you very much. So we were happy to share God’s Good News {\cf2\super [7]} with you; but not only that—we were also happy to share even our own lives with you.

2 Timothy 4:6

My life is being given as an offering for God. The time has come for me to leave this life here.

1 Peter 2:5

You also are like living stones. God is using you to build a spiritual temple. {\cf2\super [14]} You are to serve God in that temple as holy {\cf2\super [15]} priests. You are to give spiritual sacrifices {\cf2\super [16]} to God that he will accept because of Jesus Christ.

1 John 3:16

This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers and sisters \{in Christ\}.