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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

沒有人與我同心，真正關心你們的事，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 我 没 有 别 人 与 我 同 心 ， 实 在 ? 念 你 们 的 事 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Do everything without complaining or arguing. ¹⁵ Then you will be innocent and without any wrong. You will be God's children without fault. But you are living with crooked and mean people all around you, among whom you shine like stars in the dark world. ¹⁶ You offer the teaching that gives life. So when Christ comes again, I can be happy because my work was not wasted. I ran the race and won. ¹⁷ Your faith makes you offer your lives as a sacrifice in serving God. If I have to offer my own blood with your sacrifice, I will be happy and full of joy with all of you. ¹⁸ You also should be happy and full of joy with me. ¹⁹ I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon. I will be happy to learn how you are. ²⁰ I have no one else like Timothy, who truly cares for you. ²¹ Other people are interested only in their own lives, not in the work of Jesus Christ. ²² You know the kind of person Timothy is. You know he has served with me in telling the Good News, as a son serves his father. ²³ I plan to send him to you quickly when I know what will happen to me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have: Philippians 2:2, Philippians 2:22, Psalms 55:13, Proverbs 31:29, John 10:13, John 12:6, 1 Corinthians 1:10, 1 Corinthians 1:11, Colossians 4:11, 1 Timothy 1:2, 2 Timothy 1:5

likeminded: or, so dear unto me, 1 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 18:3

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:16 - all my 2 Corinthians 8:16 - earnest 2 Corinthians 8:22 - whom Philippians 4:3 - true 1 Thessalonians 2:8 - dear

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I have no man likeminded,.... With myself; as my soul, so the Syriac version renders it. Timothy had a soul like the apostle's, which none that were with him, besides him, had; he was of the same judgment with him in the doctrines of grace; he received and preached the same Gospel as he did; he preached the same Christ, the Son of God, without yea and nay; he had the same affection for the apostle, and the souls of men, as he had; his soul was knit to his, and they had, as it were, but one soul in two bodies; he was engaged in the same work of the Lord, and pursued it with the same zeal and diligence: he was a second Paul in the pulpit; and there was no man likeminded as he, or so well disposed to the Philippians as he was, that had their good and cause at heart, and was willing to take so long a journey to do them service; for he had a particular affection for them, having been among them with the apostle, when he first preached the Gospel to them:

who will naturally care for your state. There were none like him that would; many were like the shepherds of Israel, that fed themselves and not the flock; but he was one that was diligent to know the state of the flock, and looked well to the herd under his care; and had an anxious care and solicitude, as the word signifies, for the good of souls. The work of a faithful Gospel minister is a work of care; one of his characteristics is, that he cares for the church of God; and though anxious care in worldly things is forbidden, yet in the affairs of Christ's house it is highly commendable, and especially when it is natural, or genuine and sincere, as Timothy's was: he had a sincere love, an hearty and real concern for their good; and which he would show by delivering to them the sincere milk of the word, by preaching the Gospel in the power and purity of it, with all sincerity and uprightness, with a single eye to the glory of Christ, and the good of their souls; and which is the apostle's reason for sending him unto them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I have no man like-minded - Margin, “so dear unto me.” The Greek is, ἰσόψυχον isopsuchon - similar in mind, or like-minded. The meaning is, that there was no one with him who would feel so deep an interest in their welfare.

Who will naturally care - The word rendered “naturally” - γνησίως gnēsiōs - means sincerely and the idea is, that he would regard their interests with a sincere tenderness and concern. He might be depended on to enter heartily into their concerns. This arose doubtless from the fact that he had been with them when the church was founded there, and that he felt a deeper interest in what related to the apostle Paul than any other man. Paul regarded Timothy as a son, and Paul’s sending him on such an occasion would evince the feelings of a father who should send a beloved son on an important message.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. For I have no man like-minded — None of all my fellow helpers in the Gospel have the same zeal and affectionate concern for your prosperity in every respect as he has. He is ισοψυχος. of the same soul; a man after my own heart.