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THE MESSAGE
Philippians 2:21
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all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
For all seeke their owne, not the things which are Iesus Christs.
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
Other people are interested only in their own lives, not in the work of Jesus Christ.
For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.
For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
The others think only about what interests them and not about what concerns Christ Jesus.
people all put their own interests ahead of the Messiah Yeshua's.
For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.
Others are interested only in their own lives. They don't care about the work of Christ Jesus.
For all seeke their owne, and not that which is Iesus Christes.
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ''s.
Everyone else is concerned only with their own affairs, not with the cause of Jesus Christ.
For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
For all seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus.
For the others [who deserted me after my arrest] all seek [to advance] their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.
For they all seek their own, not the things of Yeshua the Messiah.
For all the others look after their own interests, not after those of Jesus Christ.1 Corinthians 10:24,33; 13:5; 1 Corinthians 10:24,33, 2 Timothy 4:10,16;">[xr]
For all are seeking what is theirs, and not what is of Jeshu Meshiha.
For they all seek their own, not the [fn] of Jesus the Messiah.
For all seeke their owne, not the thynges which are Iesus Christes.
For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
For all seek their own, not the things of Christ.
Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.
For alle men seken tho thingis that ben her owne, not tho that ben of Crist Jhesu.
For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
For all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.
For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus.
All the others care only for themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ.
Everyone else thinks of himself instead of Jesus Christ.
All of them are seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
For, they all, their own things, do seek, not the things of Christ Jesus;
For all seek the things that are their own not the things that are Jesus Christ’s.
They all look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
For all other seke ytir awne and not that which is Iesus Christes
for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,
for all other seke their awne, not that which is Iesus Christes.
the most consult their private advantage, and neglect the dispensation of Jesus Christ.
Most people only ride for themselves, but Timothy rides for the Lord.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
all: Philippians 2:4, Isaiah 56:11, Malachi 1:10, Matthew 16:24, Luke 9:57-62, Luke 14:26, Acts 13:13, Acts 15:38, 1 Corinthians 10:24, 1 Corinthians 10:33, 1 Corinthians 13:5, 2 Timothy 1:15, 2 Timothy 3:2, 2 Timothy 4:10, 2 Timothy 4:16
the: Philippians 1:20, Philippians 1:21, 2 Corinthians 1:5, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 2 Corinthians 5:15
Reciprocal: Exodus 4:14 - anger Exodus 36:5 - General Judges 5:16 - sheepfolds Judges 8:6 - General 2 Samuel 3:21 - will gather 2 Kings 12:6 - the priests Nehemiah 5:16 - all my Hosea 10:1 - an empty vine Haggai 1:4 - to Luke 10:2 - are John 6:26 - Ye seek Romans 16:18 - serve Galatians 4:17 - zealously Philippians 3:19 - whose God
Cross-References
David took the spear and water jug that were right beside Saul's head, and they slipped away. Not a soul saw. Not a soul knew. No one woke up! They all slept through the whole thing. A blanket of deep sleep from God had fallen on them.
"In a dream, for instance, a vision at night, when men and women are deep in sleep, fast asleep in their beds— God opens their ears and impresses them with warnings To turn them back from something bad they're planning, from some reckless choice, And keep them from an early grave, from the river of no return.
Life collapses on loafers; lazybones go hungry.
A Vision of a Ram and a Billy Goat "In King Belshazzar's third year as king, another vision came to me, Daniel. This was now the second vision. "In the vision, I saw myself in Susa, the capital city of the province Elam, standing at the Ulai Canal. Looking around, I was surprised to see a ram also standing at the gate. The ram had two huge horns, one bigger than the other, but the bigger horn was the last to appear. I watched as the ram charged: first west, then north, then south. No beast could stand up to him. He did just as he pleased, strutting as if he were king of the beasts. "While I was watching this, wondering what it all meant, I saw a billy goat with an immense horn in the middle of its forehead come up out of the west and fly across the whole country, not once touching the ground. The billy goat approached the double-horned ram that I had earlier seen standing at the gate and, enraged, charged it viciously. I watched as, mad with rage, it charged the ram and hit it so hard that it broke off its two horns. The ram didn't stand a chance against it. The billy goat knocked the ram to the ground and stomped all over it. Nothing could have saved the ram from the goat. "Then the billy goat swelled to an enormous size. At the height of its power its immense horn broke off and four other big horns sprouted in its place, pointing to the four points of the compass. And then from one of these big horns another horn sprouted. It started small, but then grew to an enormous size, facing south and east—toward lovely Palestine. The horn grew tall, reaching to the stars, the heavenly army, and threw some of the stars to the earth and stomped on them. It even dared to challenge the power of God, Prince of the Celestial Army! And then it threw out daily worship and desecrated the Sanctuary. As judgment against their sin, the holy people of God got the same treatment as the daily worship. The horn cast God's Truth aside. High-handed, it took over everything and everyone. "Then I overheard two holy angels talking. One asked, ‘How long is what we see here going to last—the abolishing of daily worship, this devastating judgment against sin, the kicking around of God's holy people and the Sanctuary?' "The other answered, ‘Over the course of 2,300 sacrifices, evening and morning. Then the Sanctuary will be set right again.' "While I, Daniel, was trying to make sense of what I was seeing, suddenly there was a humanlike figure standing before me. "Then I heard a man's voice from over by the Ulai Canal calling out, ‘Gabriel, tell this man what is going on. Explain the vision to him.' He came up to me, but when he got close I became terrified and fell facedown on the ground. "He said, ‘Understand that this vision has to do with the time of the end.' As soon as he spoke, I fainted, my face in the dirt. But he picked me up and put me on my feet.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For all seek their own,.... Meaning not every individual, but the greatest part; and not merely such as were manifestly false teachers, but such as were with the apostle, as ministers of the word; and we may suppose him to be stripped, by one means or another, of the more valuable preachers of the Gospel, and to be in much such a case as he describes himself to be, in 2 Timothy 4:10. He had none with him, excepting a very few, but such as he speaks of in the preceding chapter, that preached Christ of envy, strife, and contention; and these chiefly sought their own worldly interest and advantage; they sought great things for themselves, and looked every man for his gain from his quarter, Demas like, loving this present world, 2 Timothy 4:10; they sought for dominion and authority over men, and their faith, to lord it over God's heritage, as Diotrephes, who loved to have the preeminence, 3 John 1:9; they sought for popular applause, for honour and glory of men, as the Pharisees of old did; and particularly their own ease and health, and did not choose to undertake such a fatiguing journey as from Rome to Philippi:
not the things which are Jesus Christ; they had no true regard to the Gospel of Christ, to the continuance, establishment, and spread of it in the world, or in any particular place; nor any hearty affection for the ordinances of Christ, and the retaining and preserving of them in their purity and simplicity; nor for the churches of Christ, and their spiritual good and welfare, as the Jews formerly, they cared not if the house of God lay waste, provided they dwelt in their ceiled houses; nor had they any concern for the honour and glory of Christ. But Timothy was a man of a quite different spirit and complexion; and which is another reason of the apostle's sending him to this place and people.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For all seek their own - That is, all who are with me. Who Paul had with him at this time is not fully known, but he doubtless means that this remark should apply to the mass of Christians and Christian ministers then in Rome. Perhaps he had proposed to some of them to go and visit the church at Philippi, and they had declined it because of the distance and the dangers of the way. When the trial of Paul came on before the emperor, all who were with him in Rome fled from him 2 Timothy 4:16, and it is possible that the same disregard of his wishes and his welfare had already begun to manifest itself among the Christians who were at Rome, so that he was constrained to say that, as a general thing, they sought their own ease and comfort, and were unwilling to deny themselves in order to promote the happiness of those who lived in the remote parts of the world. Let us not be harsh in judging them. How many professing Christians in our cities and towns are there now who would be willing to leave their business and their comfortable homes and go on embassy like this to Philippi? How many are there who would not seek some excuse, and show that it was a characteristic that they âsought their ownâ rather than the things which pertained to the kingdom of Jesus Christ?
Not the things which are Jesus Christâs - Which pertain to his cause and kingdom. They are not willing to practice self-denial in order to promote that cause. It is implied here:
(1) That it is the duty of those who profess religion to seek the things which pertain to the kingdom of the Redeemer, or to make that the great and leading object of their lives. They are bound to be willing to sacrifice their own things - to deny themselves of ease, and to be always ready to expose themselves to peril and want if they may be the means of advancing his cause.
(2) That frequently this is not done by those who profess religion. It was the case with the professed Christians at Rome, and it is often the case in the churches now. There are few Christians who deny themselves much to promote the kingdom of the Redeemer; few who are willing to lay aside what they regard as their own in order to advance his cause. People live for their own ease; for their families; for the prosecution of their own business - as if a Christian could have anything which he has a right to pursue independently of the kingdom of the Redeemer, and without regard to his will and glory.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 21. For all seek their own — This must relate to the persons who preached Christ even of envy and strife, Philippians 1:15; these must be very careless whether souls were saved or not by such preaching; and even those who preached the Gospel out of good will might not be fit for such an embassy as this, which required many sacrifices, and consequently much love and zeal to be able to make them.
