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Philippians 2:30

James Moffatt - New Testament

for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.

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I am glad that Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus have arrived, for they have made up for your absence.

It was a great joy to me in the Lord that your care for me could revive again; for what you lacked was never the care but the chance of showing it.

But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.

Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes.

And for your souls I will gladly spend my all and be spent myself. Am I to be loved the less because I love you more than others?

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.

I would have liked to keep him beside me, that as your deputy he might serve me during my imprisonment for the gospel;

And he was ill, nearly dead with illness. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me, to save me from having one sorrow upon another.

Even if my life-blood has to be poured as a libation on the sacred sacrifice of faith you are offering to God, I rejoice, I congratulate you all —

When Timotheus arrives, see that you make him feel quite at home with you; he carries on the work of the Lord as I do.

For this perishing body must be invested with the imperishable, and this mortal body invested with immortality;

who have risked their lives for me; I thank them, and not only I but all the Gentile churches as well.

In me then death is active, in you life.




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