PHP 2:21 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) (There’s plenty who search out what they themselves need instead of the things of Yeshua Messiah.

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST All the others whom I might send to you are concerned only about their own matters. They are not concerned enough about what Jesus the Messiah considers important.

BLB For those all are seeking the things of themselves, not the things of Jesus Christ.

AICNT for they all seek their own interests, not those of {Jesus Christ}.[fn]

2:21, Jesus Christ: Later manuscripts read “the Christ Jesus.” BYZ TR

OEB They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.

WEBBE For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

WMBB For they all seek their own, not the things of Yeshua the Messiah.

NET Others are busy with their own concerns, not those of Jesus Christ.

LSV for the whole seek their own things, not the things of Christ Jesus,

FBV Other people only worry about their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

TCNT For they all seek their own interests, not those of [fn]Christ Jesus.

2:21 Christ Jesus ¦ Jesus Christ NA SBL TH

T4T All the others whom I have considered that I might send to you are concerned only about their own matters. They are not concerned about what Jesus Christ considers important.

LEB For they all seek _⌊their own interests_⌋[fn], not those of Jesus Christ.

2:21 Literally “the things of themselves”

BBE For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.

Moff Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ.

Wymth Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about those of Jesus Christ.

ASV For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

DRA For all seek the things that are their own; not the things that are Jesus Christ’s.

YLT for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,

Drby For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

RV For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

SLT For they all seek the things of themselves, and not the things of Christ Jesus.

Wbstr For all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

KJB-1769 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

KJB-1611 For all seeke their owne, not the things which are Iesus Christs.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps For all seeke their owne, not the thynges which are Iesus Christes.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Gnva For all seeke their owne, and not that which is Iesus Christes.
(For all seek their own, and not that which is Yesus/Yeshua Christ’s. )

Cvdl for all other seke their awne, not that which is Iesus Christes.
(for all other seek their own, not that which is Yesus/Yeshua Christ’s.)

TNT For all other seke ytir awne and not that which is Iesus Christes.
(For all other seek ytir own and not that which is Yesus/Yeshua Christ’s. )

Wycl For alle men seken tho thingis that ben her owne, not tho that ben of Crist Jhesu.
(For all men seek those things that been her own, not those that been of Christ Yhesu.)

Luth Denn sie suchen alle das Ihre, nicht das Christi JEsu ist.
(Because they/she/them search_for all the Ihre, not the Christi Yesu is.)

ClVg Omnes enim quæ sua sunt quærunt, non quæ sunt Jesu Christi.[fn]
(All_of_them because which his_own are they_seek, not/no which are Yesu Christi. )

2.21 Omnes, etc. Hi sunt mercenarii, qui sunt tolerandi, quia eadem habent in ore, quæ et pastores, qui utique sunt diligendi. Fures vero qui falsa prædicant, et latrones qui occidunt, sunt cavendi.

2.21 Everythings, etc. They are mercenaries, who/which are tolerandi, because the_same they_have in/into/on vocally, which and shepherds, who/which certainly are diligendi. Fures indeed/however who/which false they_preach, and robbers who/which occidunt, are cavendi.

UGNT οἱ πάντες γὰρ τὰ ἑαυτῶν ζητοῦσιν, οὐ τὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.
(hoi pantes gar ta heautōn zaʸtousin, ou ta Yaʸsou Ⱪristou.)

SBL-GNT οἱ πάντες γὰρ τὰ ἑαυτῶν ζητοῦσιν, οὐ τὰ ⸂Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ⸃.
(hoi pantes gar ta heautōn zaʸtousin, ou ta ⸂Yaʸsou Ⱪristou⸃.)

RP-GNT Οἱ πάντες γὰρ τὰ ἑαυτῶν ζητοῦσιν, οὐ τὰ χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ.
(Hoi pantes gar ta heautōn zaʸtousin, ou ta ⱪristou Yaʸsou.)

TC-GNT Οἱ πάντες γὰρ τὰ ἑαυτῶν ζητοῦσιν, οὐ τὰ [fn]Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ.
(Hoi pantes gar ta heautōn zaʸtousin, ou ta Ⱪristou Yaʸsou. )

2:21 χριστου ιησου ¦ του χριστου ιησου TR ¦ ιησου χριστου NA SBL TH

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 2:19–30: Paul discussed sending Timothy and Epaphroditus to the Philippians

Paul wrote that, as soon as he knew what would happen to him, he would send Timothy to the Philippians to tell them his news and to bring back news from them. But first Paul would send Epaphroditus. The Philippians should welcome him back and honor him.

Paragraph 2:19–24

Paul chose to send Timothy to the church at Philippi because he was the only one willing to go who truly loved the Philippian believers. But Paul wanted to wait until he found out what would happen to himself, so Timothy could bring this news to the Philippian church. Another reason Paul wanted Timothy to go to Philippi was so that Timothy could bring back news from the Philippian believers. And Paul expected that the news would be good.

2:21a

For all the others look after their own interests,

I say this because everyone else only thinks about what he himself wants,
I say this because everyone else who could go to Philippi is concerned primarily/only about what is important to himself,

For: The Greek conjunction (connecting word) here means “because.” It shows that 2:21 gives the reason why Paul had said there was no one else like Timothy (2:20).

all the others: The Greek here literally means “all (of them).” Some commentators think that Paul was making an overstatement (saying more than he meant) by saying that all the others have selfish interests and don’t have the interests of Jesus Christ.” Paul wrote like this to emphasize a point. The point was probably that all the other believers who could have gone to Philippi (with the exception of Epaphroditus—see notes on 2:25a) were only concerned about their own interests. So they were not willing to go. This left only Timothy to go to Philippi and return to Paul with news from the Philippians.

So it is clear that the phrase all the others here does not literally mean “all people.” In many languages people can use such overstatements in a figurative (non-literal) sense. But if readers of your translation understand this literally, you may need to translate the non-literal meaning of 2:21a. See 2:21a in the Display.

look after their own interests: Each person was concerned only about the things that were important to himself. This implies that each of those whom Paul referred to in 2:21a was primarily interested in his own affairs and in what he himself needed and wanted.

2:21b

not those of Jesus Christ.

instead of thinking about what Jesus Christ wants.
and is not thinking much/primarily about what is important to Jesus Christ.

not those of Jesus Christ: Notice there is no verb here. This is because it is the same verb “look after” that was in 2:21a. However, in some languages it may be necessary to make this verb explicit here.

General Comment on 2:21

Another way to translate 2:21 as a whole could be:

For everyone is concerned about what they want instead of what Jesus Christ wants.

Parallel PHP 2:21

Section 2:19–30: Paul discussed sending Timothy and Epaphroditus to the Philippians

Paragraph 2:19–24

2:21a

2:21b

General Comment on 2:21