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Philippians 2:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. "

Philippians 2:21

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19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

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

21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

22 But you know that he has proved himself. As a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

23 Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

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Philippians 2:1

"If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,"

Philippians 2:2

"make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;"

Philippians 2:3

"doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;"

Philippians 2:4

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

Philippians 2:5

"Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,"

Philippians 2:6

"who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,"

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