Outline
Greetings (1:1-2)Thanksgiving and Prayer for the Philippians (1:3-11)Paul's Personal Circumstances (1:12-26)Exhortations (1:27;2:18)- Paul's Associates in the Gospel (2:19-30)
- Warnings against Judaizers and Antinomians (3:1;4:1)
- Final Exhortations, Thanks and Conclusion (4:2-23)
Philippians 2 NLT
19 If the Lord Jesus is willing, I hope
to send Timothy to you soon for a visit. Then he can cheer me up by telling me
how you are getting along.
20 I have no one else like Timothy, who
genuinely cares about your welfare.
21 All the others care only for
themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ.
22 But you know how Timothy has proved
himself. Like a son with his father, he has served with me in preaching the
Good News.
23 I hope to send him to you just as
soon as I find out what is going to happen to me here.
24 And I have confidence from the Lord
that I myself will come to see you soon.
25 Meanwhile, I thought I should send Epaphroditus
back to you. He is a true brother, co-worker, and fellow soldier. And he was
your messenger to help me in my need.
26 I am sending him because he has been
longing to see you, and he was very distressed that you heard he was ill.
27 And he certainly was ill; in fact, he
almost died. But God had mercy on him—and also on me, so that I would not have
one sorrow after another.
28 So I am all the more anxious to send
him back to you, for I know you will be glad to see him, and then I will not be
so worried about you.
29 Welcome him in the Lord’s love and
with great joy, and give him the honor that people like him deserve.
30 For he risked his
life for the work of Christ, and he was at the point of death while doing for
me what you couldn’t do from far away.
