Philippians 2:17-28

17But if also I am poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice in common with you all.

18In like manner do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

19But I hope in [the] Lord Jesus to send Timotheus to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, knowing how ye get on.

20For I have no one like-minded who will care with genuine feeling how ye get on.

21For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

22But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

23Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:

24but I trust in [the] Lord that I myself also shall soon come;

25but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

26since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick;

27for he was also sick close to death, but 1God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

28I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful.