Philippians 2:20

Christian Standard Bible ®

For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests;

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares for you.

Revised Standard Version
I have no one like him, who will be genuinely anxious for your welfare.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For I have no ma that is so lyke mynded to me which with so pure affeccio careth for youre matters.

Hebrew Names Version
For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

New American Standard Bible
For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare.

New Century Version
I have no one else like Timothy, who truly cares for you.

Update Bible Version
For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state.

English Standard Version
For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

World English Bible
For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For I have none like-minded, who will naturally care for what concerneth you.

Weymouth's New Testament
For I have no one likeminded with him, who will cherish a genuine care for you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y haue no man so of o wille, that is bisi for you with clene affeccioun.

English Revised Version
For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state.

Berean Standard Bible
I have nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs.

Contemporary English Version
I don't have anyone else who cares about you as much as he does.

Amplified Bible
For I have no one else [like him who is] so kindred a spirit who will be genuinely concerned for your [spiritual] welfare.

American Standard Version
For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state.

Bible in Basic English
For I have no man of like mind who will truly have care for you.

Complete Jewish Bible
I have no one who compares with him, who will care so sincerely for your welfare —

Darby Translation
For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.

International Standard Version
I do not have anyone else like him who takes a genuine interest in your welfare.Psalm 55:13;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For I have no other who is so as my (own) soul, who will diligently take care for yours.

Murdock Translation
For I have no other one here, who, like my self, will sincerely care for your welfare.

King James Version (1611)
For I haue no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state.

New Living Translation
I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare.

New Life Bible
I have no one else who is as interested in you as Timothy.

New Revised Standard
I have no one like him who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For I haue no man like minded, who will faithfully care for your matters.

George Lamsa Translation
For I have no one here as interested as I am, who will sincerely care for your welfare;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, no one, have I, of equal soul, who, genuinely, as to the things that concern you, will be anxious;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I have no man so of the same mind, who with sincere affection is solicitous for you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I haue no man lyke mynded, who wyll naturally care for your state.

Good News Translation
He is the only one who shares my feelings and who really cares about you.

King James Version
For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

Lexham English Bible
For I have no one like-minded who will sincerely be concerned about your circumstances.

Literal Translation
For I have no one like-minded, who genuinely will care for the things about you.

Young's Literal Translation
for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For I haue no man that is so like mynded to me, which with so pure affeccio careth for you:

Mace New Testament (1729)
for there is no one that is so dear to me as he, and no one will more sincerely interest himself in your concerns.

New English Translation
For there is no one here like him who will readily demonstrate his deep concern for you.

New King James Version
For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your state.

Simplified Cowboy Version
There ain't another cowboy like young Timothy. This man truly knows how to care for others.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare.

Legacy Standard Bible
For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned about your circumstances.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴Do everything without grumbling and arguing, ¹⁵so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world, ¹⁶by holding firm to the word of life. Then I can boast in the day of Christ that I didn’t run or labor for nothing. ¹⁷But even if I am poured out as a drink offering on the sacrificial service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. ¹⁸In the same way you should also be glad and rejoice with me. ¹⁹Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon so that I too may be encouraged by news about you. ²⁰For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests; ²¹all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. ²²But you know his proven character, because he has served with me in the gospel ministry like a son with a father. ²³Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I see how things go with me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have: Philippians 2:2, Philippians 2:22, Psalms 55:13, Proverbs 31:29, John 10:13, John 12:6, 1 Corinthians 1:10, 1 Corinthians 1:11, Colossians 4:11, 1 Timothy 1:2, 2 Timothy 1:5

likeminded: or, so dear unto me, 1 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 18:3

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:16 - all my 2 Corinthians 8:16 - earnest 2 Corinthians 8:22 - whom Philippians 4:3 - true 1 Thessalonians 2:8 - dear

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I have no man likeminded,.... With myself; as my soul, so the Syriac version renders it. Timothy had a soul like the apostle's, which none that were with him, besides him, had; he was of the same judgment with him in the doctrines of grace; he received and preached the same Gospel as he did; he preached the same Christ, the Son of God, without yea and nay; he had the same affection for the apostle, and the souls of men, as he had; his soul was knit to his, and they had, as it were, but one soul in two bodies; he was engaged in the same work of the Lord, and pursued it with the same zeal and diligence: he was a second Paul in the pulpit; and there was no man likeminded as he, or so well disposed to the Philippians as he was, that had their good and cause at heart, and was willing to take so long a journey to do them service; for he had a particular affection for them, having been among them with the apostle, when he first preached the Gospel to them:

who will naturally care for your state. There were none like him that would; many were like the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves and not the flock; but he was one that was diligent to know the state of the flock, and looked well to the herd under his care; and had an anxious care and solicitude, as the word signifies, for the good of souls. The work of a faithful Gospel minister is a work of care; one of his characteristics is, that he cares for the church of God; and though anxious care in worldly things is forbidden, yet in the affairs of Christ's house it is highly commendable, and especially when it is natural, or genuine and sincere, as Timothy's was: he had a sincere love, an hearty and real concern for their good; and which he would show by delivering to them the sincere milk of the word, by preaching the Gospel in the power and purity of it, with all sincerity and uprightness, with a single eye to the glory of Christ, and the good of their souls; and which is the apostle's reason for sending him unto them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I have no man like-minded - Margin, “so dear unto me.” The Greek is, ἰσόψυχον isopsuchon - similar in mind, or like-minded. The meaning is, that there was no one with him who would feel so deep an interest in their welfare.

Who will naturally care - The word rendered “naturally” - γνησίως gnēsiōs - means sincerely and the idea is, that he would regard their interests with a sincere tenderness and concern. He might be depended on to enter heartily into their concerns. This arose doubtless from the fact that he had been with them when the church was founded there, and that he felt a deeper interest in what related to the apostle Paul than any other man. Paul regarded Timothy as a son, and Paul’s sending him on such an occasion would evince the feelings of a father who should send a beloved son on an important message.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. For I have no man like-minded — None of all my fellow helpers in the Gospel have the same zeal and affectionate concern for your prosperity in every respect as he has. He is ισοψυχος. of the same soul; a man after my own heart.