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17 But even if I am offered as a libation upon the sacrifice and ministry of your faith, I rejoice, and I rejoice with you all; 18 and in the same thing do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me. 19 But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus shortly to send Timothy to you, that I also may be cheerful, when having known the things concerning you. 20 For I have no one like-minded, who, indeed, will sincerely care for your interests; 21 for all are seeking their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. 22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child with a father, he served with me in furtherance of the Gospel. 23 Him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send immediately, as soon as I may look away from the things which concern me: 24 but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly. 25 Yet I deemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need; 26 since he was longing after you all, and was in great distress, because ye heard that he was sick. 27 For, in fact, he was sick, near to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. 28 I sent him, therefore, the more urgently, that, seeing him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful. 29 Receive him, therefore, in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor; 30 because, for the work of Christ, he came near to death; imperiling his soul, that he might fill up your lack of ministry toward me. Philippians 2:17-30, Worrell New Testament. Public domain.
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