Philippians 2:19-30
Timothy and Epaphroditus
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
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20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
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21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
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22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
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23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
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24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
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25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
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26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
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27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
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28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
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29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
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30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
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