But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly to you, so that I also may be of good comfort when I know your state.

Therefore I hope to send him presently, as soon as I shall see the things about me.

Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and he who ministered to my wants.

Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my necessity.

But I have all, and abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things which you sent, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable and well-pleasing to God.