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25 ) Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
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26 ) For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that all of you had heard that he had been sick.
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27 ) For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
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28 ) I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when all of you see him again, all of you may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
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29 ) Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in reputation:
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30 ) Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
