Philippians 2:21

Most others seek their own interests rather than those of Jesus Christ. Self-seeking is a common failing even among workers.

Cross-references · 18

• 1 Cor 10:24No one should seek his own good, but the good of others.
• Phil 2:4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
• 1 Cor 10:33as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.
• Matt 16:24Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
• 1 Cor 13:5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
• 2 Tim 3:2For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
• Isa 56:11Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:
• Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
• 2 Tim 4:10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
• 2 Cor 5:14–15For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
• 2 Cor 1:5For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
• Phil 1:20–21I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
• 2 Tim 4:16At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
• Acts 15:38But Paul thought it best not to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not accompanied them in the work.
• Luke 9:57–62As they were walking along the road, someone said to Jesus, “I will follow You wherever You go.”
• Mal 1:10“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
• Acts 13:13After setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem.
• 2 Tim 1:15You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

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