Paul’s Plans: Timothy and Epaphroditus

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And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,

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for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,

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for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,

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and the proof of him ye know, that as a child serveth a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

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him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me--immediately;

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and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come.

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And I thought it necessary Epaphroditus--my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need--to send unto you,

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seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

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for he also ailed nigh to death, but God did deal kindly with him, and not with him only, but also with me, that sorrow upon sorrow I might not have.

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The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;

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receive him, therefore, in the Lord, with all joy, and hold such in honour,

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because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.

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