¹³ As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, `So is' a faithful messenger to them that send him; For he refresheth the soul of his masters.

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falleth into evil; But a faithful ambassador is health.

²⁵ `As' cold waters to a thirsty soul, So is good news from a far country.

⁶ He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off `his own' feet, `and' drinketh in damage.

²⁵ But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;

²⁶ since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:

²⁷ for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

²⁸ I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor:

³⁰ because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.