Philippians 2:21
Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.
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Referenced Verses
- 1 Cor 10:24 : 24 Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.
- 1 Cor 13:5 : 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.
- Phil 2:4 : 4 Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
- 2 Tim 3:2 : 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
- 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.
- 2 Cor 1:5 : 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow toward us, so also our comfort through Christ overflows to you.
- 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died. 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
- Phil 1:20-21 : 20 My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die. 21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.
- 1 Cor 10:33 : 33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
- Luke 14:26 : 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
- Isa 56:11 : 11 The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.
- Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples,“If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
- Luke 9:57-62 : 57 Challenging Professed Followers As they were walking along the road, someone said to him,“I will follow you wherever you go.” 58 Jesus said to him,“Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.” 59 Jesus said to another,“Follow me.” But he replied,“Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” 60 But Jesus said to him,“Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61 Yet another said,“I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family.” 62 Jesus said to him,“No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
- Mal 1:10 : 10 “I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and I will no longer accept an offering from you.
- Acts 13:13 : 13 Paul and Barnabas at Pisidian Antioch Then Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John left them and returned to Jerusalem.
- Acts 15:38 : 38 but Paul insisted that they should not take along this one who had left them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.
- 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 At my first defense no one appeared in my support; instead they all deserted me– may they not be held accountable for it.
- 2 Tim 1:15 : 15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
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2 complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.
3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
4 Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,
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20 For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you.
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24 Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.
- 1 Cor 3:21-222 verses73%
21 So then, no more boasting about mere mortals! For everything belongs to you,
22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,
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7 You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.
- Phil 1:15-173 verses72%
15 Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.
16 The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.
17 The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment.
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33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.
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17 They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.
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21 For we are concerned about what is right not only before the Lord but also before men.
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12 Now I mean this, that each of you is saying,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” or“I am with Cephas,” or“I am with Christ.”
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30 since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.
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5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.
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19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.
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2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.
3 For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written,“The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”
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7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ.
8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,
9 and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness– a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.
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18 For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.
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6 I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.
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22 But you know his qualifications, that like a son working with his father, he served with me in advancing the gospel.
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21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain.
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16 Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.
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6 nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,
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13 For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.
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10 Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!
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4 Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.
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5 For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.
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7 For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.
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20 But you did not learn about Christ like this,
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16 by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
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30 since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.
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4 For whenever someone says,“I am with Paul,” or“I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human?
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17 Be imitators of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who are living this way, just as you have us as an example.
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12 Keep Going Forward Not that I have already attained this– that is, I have not already been perfected– but I strive to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,
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19 So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.
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16 so that we may preach the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast of work already done in another person’s area.
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10 so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,
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15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,
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17 I do not say this because I am seeking a gift. Rather, I seek the credit that abounds to your account.
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12 And what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may eliminate any opportunity for those who want a chance to be regarded as our equals in the things they boast about.
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1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
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12 Paul’s Mission For we would not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.