Philippians 2:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

Philippians 2:20 —

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Cross-References

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Philippians 2:2
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Philippians 2:22
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
1 Corinthians 16:10
Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
1 Samuel 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
John 10:13
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 19-30)

Paul takes particular notice of two good ministers; for though he was himself a great apostle, and laboured more abundantly than they all, yet he took all occasions to speak with respect of those who were far his inferiors. I. He speaks of Timothy, whom he intended to send to the Philippians, that he might have an account of their state. See Paul’s care of the churches, and the comfort he had in t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. His reason for sending Timothy above all others: I have none so “like-minded,” literally, “like-souled,” with myself as is Timothy. Compare De 13:6, “Thy friend which is as thine own soul” (Psa 55:14). Paul’s second self. naturally--Greek, “genuinely”; “with sincere solicitude.” A case wherein the Spirit of God so changed man’s nature, that to be natural was with him to be spiritual: the great…