Let each of you look out not only for his own concerns, but also for the concerns of others.

Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding; all have followed their own ways, each according to his [will].

Because even among you the doors shall be shut, and one will not kindle [the fire of] My altar for nothing, I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will not accept a sacrifice at your hands.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, "Lord, I will follow You wherever You go."

Then He said to another, "Follow Me." But he said, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

And another also said, "Lord, I will follow You, but first permit me to say farewell to those who are at my house."

If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.

Now Paul and his companions put to sea from Paphos, and came to Perga of Pamphylia; But John deserted them and returned to Jerusalem.

But Paul considered it fitting not to take along with them the one who withdrew from them in Pamphylia, and who had not gone together with them to the work.

Let no one seek his own concerns, but let each [one] seek another's concern.

just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the [profit] of many, that they may be saved.

does not behave disgracefully, does not seek its own, is not provoked to anger, thinks no evil;

This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and traveled to Thessalonica--Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

At my first defense no one stood with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.

according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I will be ashamed, but with utmost boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

For to me, to live [is] Christ, and to die [is] gain.

Because just as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.

For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this: that if One died for all, then all died;

and He died for all, so that they who live should live no longer for themselves, but for the [One] who died for them and rose again.