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 God 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. ²⁹Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour; ³⁰because for the sake of the work he drew near even to death, venturing his life that he might fill up what lacked in your ministration toward me.

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