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Php 1:9 King James And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The subject of his prayer for them (Phi 1:4).

your love--to Christ, producing love not only to Paul, Christ's minister, as it did, but also to one another, which it did not altogether as much as it ought (Phi 2:2; Phi 4:2).

knowledge--of doctrinal and practical truth.

judgment--rather, "perception"; "perceptive sense." Spiritual perceptiveness: spiritual sight, spiritual hearing, spiritual feeling, spiritual taste. Christianity is a vigorous plant, not the hotbed growth of enthusiasm. "Knowledge" and "perception" guard love from being ill-judged.
 
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2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.