Philippians 2:21

Timothy's Proven Character

²⁰ For I have no one likeminded with him, who will cherish a genuine care for you. ²¹ Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ. ²² But you know Timothy's approved worth--how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

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1 Corinthians 10:24

Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek that of his fellow man.

1 Corinthians 13:5

She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.

Philippians 2:4

each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.

2 Timothy 3:2

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, profane. They will be disobedient to parents, thankless, irreligious,

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If any one desires to follow me, let him renounce self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.

Luke 14:26

"If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

1 Corinthians 10:33

That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

2 Corinthians 1:5

For just as we have more than our share of suffering for the Christ, so also through the Christ we have more than our share of comfort.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which we have arrived being this--that One having died for all, His death was their death,

Philippians 1:20-21

in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death.

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas has deserted me--loving, as he does, the present age--and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Luke 9:57-62

And, as they proceeded on their way, a man came to Him and said, "I will follow you wherever you go."

Acts 13:13

From Paphos, Paul and his party put out to sea and sailed to Perga in Pamphylia. John, however, left them and returned to Jerusalem.

Acts 15:38

while Paul deemed it undesirable to have as their companion one who had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not gone on with them to the work.

2 Timothy 1:15

Of this you are aware, that all the Christians in Roman Asia have deserted me: and among them Phygelus and Hermogenes.

2 Timothy 4:16

At my first defence I had no one at my side, but all deserted me. May it not be laid to their charge.