Book of Philippians – Day 3

₁₉If it is the Lord's will, I hope that I will be able to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be encouraged by news about you. ₂₀He is the only one who shares my feelings and who really cares about you. ₂₁All the others are concerned only with their own affairs, not with the cause of Jesus Christ. ₂₂And you yourselves know how he has proved his worth, how he and I, like a son and his father, have worked together for the sake of the gospel. ₂₃So I hope to send him to you as soon as I know how things are going to turn out for me. ₂₄And I trust in the Lord that I myself will be able to come to you soon.

₂₅I have thought it necessary to send you our brother Epaphroditus, who has worked and fought by my side and who has served as your messenger in helping me. ₂₆He is anxious to see you all and is very upset because you had heard that he was ill. ₂₇Indeed he was ill and almost died. But God had pity on him, and not only on him but on me, too, and spared me an even greater sorrow. ₂₈I am all the more eager, then, to send him to you, so that you will be glad again when you see him, and my own sorrow will disappear. ₂₉Receive him, then, with joy, as a brother in the Lord. Show respect to all such people as he, ₃₀because he risked his life and nearly died for the sake of the work of Christ, in order to give me the help that you yourselves could not give.