2:25Yet 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.

2:26For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

2:27For 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.

2:28I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

2:29Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

2:30Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

4:10But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

4:11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

4:12I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

4:13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

4:14Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

4:15Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

4:16For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

4:17Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

4:18But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.