Philippians 2:4

American Standard Version (1901)

not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἕκαστος σκοπεῖτε, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ ἑτέρων ἕκαστος.

Transliteration

Not the things of yourselves hekastos skopeite, but also the things of others hekastos.

Grammar Details

• *hekastos*: nominative, masculine, singular - each one/every one
• *skopeite*: present imperative, 2nd person plural - look at/consider/regard

Word Meanings

• *hekastos*: each one/every one/each person
• *skopeite*: look at/consider/pay attention to/regard

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 Let no man seek his own, but [each] his neighbor's [good] .
• Rom 15:1 : 1 Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Jas 2:8 : 8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
• Matt 18:6 : 6 But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and [that] he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.
• Rom 12:15 : 15 Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.
• 1 Cor 10:32-33 : 32 Give no occasions of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God: 33 even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the [profit] of the many, that they may be saved.
• 1 Cor 12:22-26 : 22 Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary: 23 and those [parts] of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness; 24 whereas our comely [parts] have no need: but God tempered the body together, giving more abundant honor to that [part] which lacked; 25 that there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one member suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or [one] member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
• 1 Cor 13:4-5 : 4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;
• 2 Cor 6:3 : 3 giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;
• 2 Cor 11:29 : 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?
• Rom 14:19-22 : 19 So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another. 20 Overthrow not for meat's sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. 21 It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [to do anything] whereby thy brother stumbleth. 22 The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God. Happy is he that judgeth not himself in that which he approveth.
• 1 Cor 8:9-9 : 9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak. 10 For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols? 11 For through thy knowledge he that is weak perisheth, the brother for whose sake Christ died. 12 And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.