Philippians 2:12-30 ▼

12 So, my beloved brethren, as you have always harkened, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

13 for God is the one working in you both to will and to do, of his own good pleasure.

14 Do all things without murmurings and disputatious;

15 in order that you may be blameless and pure, the children of God, irreproachable, amid a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

16 having the word of life; unto my boasting in the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain, neither did I labor in vain.

17 But if indeed I am poured out for a sacrifice and an offering for your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice along with you all;

18 but you also rejoice in this same thing, and rejoice along with me.

19 But I hope in the Lord Jesus, speedily to send unto you Timothy, in order that I may also be delighted, having learned the things concerning you.

20 For I have no one like-minded, who will nobly remember the things concerning you;

21 for all are seeking after their own, and not the things of Jesus Christ.

22 But you know his integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel.

23 Indeed then I hope to send him, so soon as I may learn the things concerning myself:

24 but I trust in the Lord that I myself will come speedily.

25 But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, and apostle and the minister of my necessity;

26 since he was longing after you all, and grieving, because you heard that he was sick.

27 For he was indeed nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not only him, but me also, in order that I may not have sorrow upon sorrow.

28 Therefore I the more diligently, in order that, seeing him, you may rejoice again, and I may not be without sorrow.

29 Then receive him in the Lord with all joy, and have such in honor:

30 because he was nigh unto death on account of the work of Christ, having jeoparded his life, in order that he might fulfill your deficiency of ministry towards me.