Philippians Chapter 2 verse 4 Holy Bible
not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
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Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.
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regarding not each his own [qualities], but each those of others also.
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Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
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each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
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each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Translate, "looking," as R.V., not making one's own interest the one only object of life, but regarding also the interests, feelings, wishes, of others. Each man must in a measure look at his own things, - the καί implies that; but he must consider others if he is a Christian indeed.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Look not every man on his own things.--This verse similarly describes the positive effect of this "being of one mind" as consisting in power of understanding and sympathy towards "the things of others"--not merely the interests, but also the ideas and feelings of others. To "look upon" here is something more than "to seek" (as in Philippians 2:21). It expresses that insight into the thoughts, hopes, aspirations of others, which only a self-forgetting love can give, as well as the care to consider their welfare and happiness. Yet by the word "also" we see that St. Paul does not, in the spirit of some forms of modern transcendentalism, denounce all self-consciousness and self-love, as in a bad sense "selfish." For man is individual as well as social; he can subordinate "his own things" to "the things of others," but cannot ignore them.
