Philippians 2:21

Timothy's Proven Character

²⁰ For I have no one but him to send--no one of kindred spirit who would take the same genuine interest in your welfare. ²¹ They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus. ²² But you know what Timothy has proved himself to be, and how, like a child working for his father, he worked hard with me in spreading the Good News.

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1 Corinthians 10:24

A man must not study his own interests, but the interests of others.

1 Corinthians 13:5

Love is never self-seeking, never provoked, never reckons up her wrongs;

Philippians 2:4

And one and all should consider, not only their own interests, but also the interests of others.

2 Timothy 3:2

Men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples: "If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Luke 14:26

"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.

1 Corinthians 10:33

For I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but that of men in general, that they may be saved.

2 Corinthians 1:5

It is true that we have our full share of the sufferings of the Christ, but through the Christ we have also our full share of consolation.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died;

Philippians 1:20-21

And this will fulfil my earnest expectation and hope that I shall have no cause for shame, but that, with unfailing courage, now as hitherto, Christ will be honored in my body, whether by my life or by my death,

2 Timothy 4:10

for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Luke 9:57-62

And, while they were on their way, a man said to Jesus: "I will follow you wherever you go."

Acts 13:13

After this, Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and went to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them and returned to Jerusalem.

Acts 15:38

But Paul felt that they ought not to take with them the man who had deserted them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with them to their work.

2 Timothy 1:15

You know, of course, that all our friends in Roman Asia turned their backs on me, and among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.

2 Timothy 4:16

At my first trial no one stood by me. They all deserted me. May it never be counted against them!