⁷ even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

²³ Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

⁷ All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

² who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

¹⁷ Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

² The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

⁶ If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

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

¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

²⁰ For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

²¹ For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

²² But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Gospel.

²¹ subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

²⁵ Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

¹⁷ Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

² Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

²¹ "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

⁴⁵ "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

⁷ My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house: