Philippians 2:25-30 - Epaphroditus' Mission
25 As for Epaphroditus, however, my brother, my fellow-worker, my fellow-soldier, and your messenger to meet my wants, I think it necessary to send you him at once, 26 for he has been yearning for you all. He has been greatly concerned because you heard he was ill. 27 And he was ill, nearly dead with illness. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me, to save me from having one sorrow upon another. 28 So I am specially eager to send him, that you may be glad when you see him again, and thus my own anxiety may be lightened. 29 Give him a welcome in the Lord, then, with your hearts full of joy. Value men like that, 30 for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.