but He laid it aside as He took on the nature of a slave and became like other men.

For I have no one else with a heart like his who would take such genuine interest in you,

But you know his tested character, how like a son in fellowship with his father he has toiled with me like a slave in preaching the good news.

So give him a hearty Christian welcome and hold in honor men like him,

He will so change the outward appearance of our lowly bodies that they will be like His glorious body, by the exertion of the power He has to subject everything to Himself.

I have received your payment in full, and more too. I am amply supplied after getting the things you sent by Epaphroditus; they are like sweet incense, the kind of sacrifice that God accepts and approves.