50:002:010 That at the name of Jesus every knee should
bow, of things in
heaven,
and things in earth, and things under the earth;
50:002:011 And that every tongue should confess that
Jesus Christ is
Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
50:002:012 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always
obeyed, not as in my
presence
only, but now much more in my absence, work out your
own
salvation with fear and trembling.
50:002:013 For it is God which worketh in you both
to will and to do of
his
good pleasure.
50:002:014 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
50:002:015 That ye may be blameless and harmless,
the sons of God,
without
rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation,
among
whom ye shine as lights in the world;
50:002:016 Holding forth the word of life; that I
may rejoice in the day
of
Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured
in
vain.
50:002:017 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice
and service of
your
faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
50:002:018 For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.
50:002:019 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus
shortly unto
you,
that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your
state.
50:002:020 For I have no man likeminded, who will
naturally care for your
state.
50:002:021 For all seek their own, not the things
which are Jesus
Christ’s.
50:002:022 But ye know the proof of him, that, as
a son with the father,
he
hath served with me in the gospel.
50:002:023 Him therefore I hope to send presently,
so soon as I shall see
how
it will go with me.
50:002:024 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
50:002:025 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to
you Epaphroditus, my
brother,
and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your
messenger,
and he that ministered to my wants.
50:002:026 For he longed after you all, and was full
of heaviness,
because
that ye had heard that he had been sick.
50:002:027 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.
50:002:028 I sent him therefore the more carefully,
that, when ye see him
again,
ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
50:002:029 Receive him therefore in the Lord with
all gladness; and hold
such
in reputation:
50:002:030 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh
unto death, not
regarding
his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.


