Philippians 2:21

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Philippians 2:21

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

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Philippians 1:20

2 Corinthians 1:5

2 Corinthians 5:14

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Do not take account of your own interests, but of the interests of others as well.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.

As they were going along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

Paul and his companions sailed from Paphos and went to Perga in Pamphylia. There John left them and returned to Jerusalem,

But Paul did not approve of taking with them a man who had deserted them in Pamphylia instead of going on with them to their work.

No one should look after his own advantage but after that of his neighbor.

It is not rude. It does not insist on its rights. It does not become angry. It is not resentful.

You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent,

for Demas has deserted me for love of the present world, and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

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for I eagerly and confidently hope that I shall never disgrace myself but that this time as always hitherto, living or dying, I shall do Christ credit by my unfailing courage.

For if I have a liberal share of Christ's sufferings, through Christ I have a liberal share of comfort too.

It is Christ's love that controls me, for I have become convinced that as one has died for all, all have died,