This also is of God. For to you it is given, with regard to Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him:

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above every name,

But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Him therefore I hope to send, as soon as ever I know how it will go with me.

Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my need.

He was indeed sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

I have sent him therefore the more willingly, that ye seeing him again may rejoice, and that I also may be the less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and honour such.

that I may gain Christ, And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to his death: