Philippians 2:17-30 ▼

17 Yea, and though I be offered vp vpo the offeryng and seruice of your fayth, I reioyce, and reioyce with you all.

18 For the same cause also do ye reioyce, and reioyce with me.

19 But I trust in the Lorde Iesus, to sende Timotheus shortly vnto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I knowe your state.

20 For I haue no man lyke mynded, who wyll naturally care for your state.

21 For all seeke their owne, not the thynges which are Iesus Christes.

22 Ye knowe the profe of hym, that as a sonne with the father, he hath serued with me in the Gospell.

23 Hym therfore I hope to sende, assoone as I knowe my state.

24 But I trust in the Lorde, that I also my selfe shall come shortly.

25 But I supposed it necessarie to sende to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour, & felowe souldier, but your Apostle, and the minister of my neede.

26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heauinesse, because that ye had hearde that he had ben sicke.

27 And no doubt he was sicke nye vnto death, but God had mercie on hym, and not on hym only, but on me also, lest I shoulde haue sorowe vpon sorowe.

28 I sent him therfore the more diligentlie, that when ye see him againe, ye may reioyce, and that I may be the lesse sorowfull.

29 Receaue hym therfore in the Lorde with all gladnes, & make much of such:

30 Because, for the worke of Christe, he was nye vnto death, not regardyng his lyfe, to fulfyll your lacke of seruice towarde me.