just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.
who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house.
and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. But you know Timothy's proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.
submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.
That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?
Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.
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