20 For I have no one like-minded, who will sincerely care for your welfare.
21 For all seek their own, not the things of Christ Jesus.
22 But you know of his proven worth, that as a son with a father, he has served with me in the gospel.
23 Therefore I hope to send him soon after my situation is resolved.
24 But I trust in the Lord that I, myself, shall also come shortly.
25 Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, who is my brother and companion in labor, fellow soldier, your messenger, and he who ministered to my necessity.
26 For he longed after you all and was filled with heaviness, because you heard that he was sick.