14. Do all things without murmurings and disputes,
15. that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
16. holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.
17. Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
18. In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
19. But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
20. For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
21. For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
22. But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
23. Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.
24. But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
25. But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need;
26. since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.
27. For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.
28. I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when you see him again, you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.