26For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
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For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-30)Paul takes particular notice of two good ministers; for though he was himself a great apostle, and laboured more abundantly than they all , yet he took all occasions to speak with respect of those who were far his inferiors. I. He speaks of Timothy, whom he intended to send to the Philippians, that he might have an account of their state. See Paul’s care of the churches, and the comfort he had in…
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