Philippians 2:19-3:7

          19Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I learn how you are doing.
          20I have nobody else like him who will genuinely care for your needs.
          21For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
          22But you know Timothy’s proven worth, that as a child with his father he has served with me to advance the gospel.
          23So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me.
          24And I trust in the Lord that I myself will come soon.

          25But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.
          26For he has been longing for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.
          27He was sick indeed, nearly unto death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow.

          28Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious.
          29Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him,
          30because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.

¹Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

          2Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
          3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh —
          4though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

⁵circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

⁶as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

⁷But whatever was gain to me I count as loss for the sake of Christ.

Philippians 2:19-3:7

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