13. For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
14. Do all things without murmuring and disputing:
15. That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
16. Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain.
17. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
18. For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
19. But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
20. For I have no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state.
21. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
22. But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.
23. Him therefore I hope to send presently, as soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
24. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
25. Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.