Timothy and Epaphroditus

19 I hope in the Lord Jesus (A)to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you.

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17 That is why (A)I sent[a] you Timothy, (B)my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,[b] (C)as I teach them everywhere in every church.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 4:17 Or am sending
  2. 1 Corinthians 4:17 Some manuscripts add Jesus

Timothy's Encouraging Report

But (A)now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of (B)your faith and love and reported (C)that you always remember us kindly and (D)long to see us, as we long to see you— for this reason, brothers,[a] in all our distress and affliction (E)we have been comforted about you through your faith. For now we live, if you (F)are standing fast in the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 3:7 Or brothers and sisters

and we (A)sent Timothy, (B)our brother and God's coworker[a] in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 3:2 Some manuscripts servant

Greeting

Paul and Timothy, servants[a] of Christ Jesus,

To all the (A)saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the (B)overseers[b] and (C)deacons:[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
  2. Philippians 1:1 Or bishops; Greek episkopoi
  3. Philippians 1:1 Or servants, or ministers; Greek diakonoi

because I (A)hear of your love and (B)of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints, and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full (C)knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.[a] For I have derived much joy and (D)comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints (E)have been refreshed through you.

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  1. Philemon 1:6 Or for Christ's service

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, and with him (A)Onesimus, our faithful and (B)beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.

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28 I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.

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23 I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me, 24 and (A)I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.

25 I have thought it necessary to send to you (B)Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and (C)fellow soldier, and your messenger and (D)minister to my need,

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For (A)I rejoiced greatly when the brothers[a] came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that (B)my children are walking in the truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 3 John 1:3 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters; also verses 5, 10

15 Instead you ought to say, (A)“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

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12 (A)which is why I suffer as I do. But (B)I am not ashamed, for (C)I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until (D)that day (E)what has been entrusted to me.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Timothy 1:12 Or what I have entrusted to him; Greek my deposit

Thanksgiving

(A)We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers,[a] as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 1:3 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters

Final Greetings

21 (A)So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, (B)Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything. 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may (C)encourage your hearts.

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13 In him you also, when you heard (A)the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, (B)were sealed with the (C)promised Holy Spirit,

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21 (A)Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

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12 And again Isaiah says,

(A)(B)“The root of Jesse will come,
    even he who arises to rule the Gentiles;
(C)in him will the Gentiles hope.”

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21     (A)and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”

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Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man (A)who trusts in man
    and makes flesh his strength,[a]
    whose heart turns away from the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm

21 (A)who through him are believers in God, (B)who raised him from the dead and (C)gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

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