Col. 2:2), of his will (Col. 1:9), of sin (Rom. 3:20), of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Tim. 2:25; 3:7; Titus 1:1), or of everything good (Philem. 6). Since Paul does not specify the content of that knowledge here, he probably intends for it to cover spiritual knowledge generally. If so, the point of his petition is that the Philippians might understand how to obey God’s command that believers love one another. Paul’s term for “depth of insight” (aisthesis) appears only here in the New Testament, but