腓立比书2:25-30
25然而我想必须打发以巴弗提到你们那里去。他是我的兄弟，与我一同作工，一同当兵，是你们所差遣的，也是供给我需用的。26他很想念你们众人，并且极其难过，因为你们听见他病了。27他实在是病了，几乎要死。然而神怜恤他，不但怜恤他，也怜恤我，免得我忧上加忧。28所以我越发急速打发他去，叫你们再见他，就可以喜乐，我也可以少些忧愁。29故此你们要在主里欢欢乐乐地接待他。而且要尊重这样的人。30因他为作基督的工夫，几乎至死，不顾性命，要补足你们供给我的不及之处。
25Meanwhile, I thought I should send Epaphroditus back to you. He is a true brother, co-worker, and fellow soldier. And he was your messenger to help me in my need. 26I am sending him because he has been longing to see you, and he was very distressed that you heard he was ill. 27And he certainly was ill; in fact, he almost died. But God had mercy on him—and also on me, so that I would not have one sorrow after another. 28So I am all the more anxious to send him back to you, for I know you will be glad to see him, and then I will not be so worried about you. 29Welcome him in the Lord’s love#2:29 Greek in the Lord. and with great joy, and give him the honor that people like him deserve. 30For he risked his life for the work of Christ, and he was at the point of death while doing for me what you couldn’t do from far away.
