For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
All Commentaries on Philippians 2:21 Go To Philippians 2
John Chrysostom
AD 407
their own comfort, their own safety. This too he writes to Timothy. But why does he lament such things as these? To teach us his hearers not to fall in like sort, to teach his hearers not to seek for remission from toil; for he who seeks remission from toil, seeks not the things that are Christ's, but his own. We ought to be prepared against every toil, against every distress.
