And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all discernment;

fill ye up my joy, that ye think the same thing; having the same love; united in soul; minding the one thing;

Yet I deemed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need;

because, for the work of Christ, he came near to death; imperiling his soul, that he might fill up your lack of ministry toward me.

Yea, I request you also, true yoke-fellow, help these women, who, indeed, labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and my remaining fellow-laborers, whose names are in the book of life.