Philippians 2:25-30

Jubilee Bible 2000

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 needs.

²⁶ For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he had been sick

²⁷ For indeed he was sick near unto death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

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.

²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and esteem such

³⁰ because for the work of the Christ he was near unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.