Philippians 2:25-30 - Epaphroditus' Mission

²⁵ I supposed it necessary to send brother Epaphroditus unto you, my companion in labour and fellow soldier, your apostle, and my minister at my needs. ²⁶ For he longed after you, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard say that he should be sick, ²⁷ and no doubt he was sick, and that nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him: not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have had sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ I sent him therefore the diligentlier, that when ye should see him, ye might rejoice again, and I might be the less sorrowful. ²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and make much of such: ³⁰ because that for the work of Christ he went so far, that he was nigh unto death, and regarded not his life, to fulfill that service which was lacking on your part toward me.