PHILIPPIANS 2:12-30
2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence 
only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear 
and trembling.
2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good 
pleasure.
2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in 
the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in 
the world;
2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, 
that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I 
joy, and rejoice with you all.
2:18 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I 
also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
2:22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath 
served with me in the gospel.
2:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will 
go with me.
2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and 
companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that 
ministered to my wants.
2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye 
had heard that he had been sick.
2:27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not 
on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
2:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye 
may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in 
reputation:
2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his 
life, to supply your lack of service toward me.