Philippians 1:6
Good News Translation
And so I am sure that God, who began this good work in you, will carry it on until it is finished on the Day of Christ Jesus.

New Revised Standard Version
I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.

Contemporary English Version
God is the one who began this good work in you, and I am certain that he won't stop before it is complete on the day that Christ Jesus returns.

New American Bible
I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Being confident of this very thing: that he who hath begun a good work in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Being confident of this very thing: that he who hath begun a good work in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus.

confident.

2 Corinthians 1:15 And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace:

2 Corinthians 2:3 And I wrote this same to you: that I may not, when I come, have sorrow upon sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice: having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Corinthians 7:16 I rejoice that in all things I have confidence in you.

2 Corinthians 9:4 Lest, when the Macedonians shall come with me and find you unprepared, we (not to say ye) should be ashamed in this matter.

Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will not be of another mind: but he that troubleth you shall bear the judgment, whosoever he be.

2 Thessalonians 3:4 And we have confidence concerning you in the Lord that the things which we command, you both do and will do.

Philemon 1:21 Trusting in thy obedience, I have written to thee: knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Hebrews 10:35 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

begun.

Philippians 1:29 For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him:

Philippians 2:13 For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he hath sent.

Acts 11:18 Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto life.

Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul.

Romans 8:28-30 And we know that to them that love God all things work together unto good: to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. . . .

Ephesians 2:4-10 But God (who is rich in mercy) for his exceeding charity wherewith he loved us . . .

Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism: in whom also you are risen again by the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him up from the dead.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 Being mindful of the work of your faith and labour and charity: and of the enduring of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God and our Father.

2 Thessalonians 2:13,14 0 . . .

Titus 3:4-6 But when the goodness and kindness of God our Saviour appeared: . . .

Hebrews 13:20,21 And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great pastor of the sheep, our Lord Jesus Christ, in the blood of the everlasting testament, . . .

James 1:16-18 Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren. . . .

1 Peter 1:2,3 According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. . . .

will.

Psalm 138:8 The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.

John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he hath sent.

Ephesians 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the word of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

1 Thessalonians 5:23,24 And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. . . .

2 Thessalonians 1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you: That our God would make you worthy of his vocation and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith in power:

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you and confirm you and establish you.

perform it.

Hebrews 12:2 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.

the day.

Philippians 1:10 That you may approve the better things: that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ:

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1 Corinthians 1:8 Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up.

Context
Thanksgiving and Prayer
5For your communication in the gospel of Christ, from the first day unto now. 6Being confident of this very thing: that he who hath begun a good work in you will perfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus. 7As it is meet for me to think this for you all, for that I have you in my heart; and that, in my bands and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.…
Cross References
Psalm 138:8
The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.

1 Corinthians 1:8
Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:10
That you may approve the better things: that you may be sincere and without offence unto the day of Christ:

Philippians 2:12
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation.

Philippians 2:16
Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ: because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

Philippians 1:5
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