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I Am Hoping To Send Timothy To You, And To Come Soon Myself

¹⁹ Now I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon in order that I also may be cheered, having come-to-know the things concerning you. ²⁰ For I have no one likeminded who will genuinely be concerned-about the things concerning you. ²¹ For the ones all are seeking their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ. ²² But you know his approvedness, because he served with me for the good-news as a child with a father. ²³ So indeed I am hoping to send this one at-once, whenever I see the things with-respect-to me. ²⁴ And I am confident in the Lord that I myself also will come soon.

I Sent Back Epaphroditus, Your Precious Servant To My Need. Rejoice In Him

²⁵ But I regarded it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus— my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your delegate^[a] and minister of my need— ²⁶ because he was yearning-for you all, and was being distressed because you heard that he was sick. ²⁷ For indeed he was sick nearly to death. But God had-mercy-on him— and not him only, but also me, in order that I should not have grief upon grief. ²⁸ Therefore I sent him more-eagerly, in order that having seen him again you may rejoice, and I may be less-grieved. ²⁹ So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and be holding such ones precious, ³⁰ because he drew-near to the point of death for the sake of the work of Christ— having risked his life in order that he might fill-up your lack^[b] of service to me.

Finally, Rejoice In The Lord

3 Finally, my brothers, be rejoicing in the Lord. To be writing the same things to you is not troublesome for me, and is safe for you—

Watch Out For The False Circumcision

² Be watching-out-for the dogs^[c], be watching out for the evil workers, be watching out for the mutilation^[d]. ³ For we are the circumcision, the ones worshiping in the Spirit of God and boasting in Christ Jesus and not putting-confidence in the flesh—