Philippians 2:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill:

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  • Rom 12:15 : 15 Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.
  • Phil 1:8 : 8 For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.
  • Phil 4:1 : 1 So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.
  • 1 Pet 1:6 : 6 You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,
  • 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.
  • 2 Cor 9:14 : 14 While their hearts go out to you in love and in prayer for you, because of the great grace of God which is in you.
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
  • Eph 3:13 : 13 For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.
  • Phil 1:3 : 3 I give praise to my God at every memory of you,
  • 2 Sam 13:39 : 39 And the heart of David was wasted with desire for Absalom: for he was comforted for the death of Amnon.
  • 2 Sam 24:17 : 17 And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people, he said to the Lord, Truly, the sin is mine; I have done wrong: but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand be against me and against my family.
  • Job 9:27 : 27 If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
  • Prov 12:25 : 25 Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.
  • Matt 26:37 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.
  • John 11:35-36 : 35 And Jesus himself was weeping. 36 So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!
  • Acts 21:13 : 13 Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
  • Rom 1:11 : 11 For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;
  • Rom 9:2 : 2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

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    27 For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

    28 I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

  • Phil 2:25
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    25 But it seemed to me necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, who has taken part with me in the work and in the fight, and your servant, sent by you for help in my need;

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    30 Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.

  • 2 Cor 2:3-5
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    3 And I said this very thing in my letter, for fear that when I came I might have sorrow from those from whom it was right for me to have joy; being certain of this, that my joy is the joy of you all.

    4 For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

    5 But if anyone has been a cause of sorrow, he has been so, not to me only, but in some measure to all of you (I say this that I may not be over-hard on you).

  • Phlm 1:12-13
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    12 Whom I have sent back to you, him who is my very heart:

    13 Though my desire was to keep him with me, to be my servant in the chains of the good news, in your place:

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    7 So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.

    8 For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.

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    4 Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

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    18 And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.

    19 But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you.

    20 For I have no man of like mind who will truly have care for you.

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    10 But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.

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    15 And his love to you is the more increased by his memory of you all, how you gave way to his authority, and how you took him to your hearts with fear and honour.

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    5 For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.

    6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

    7 For this cause, brothers, in all our trouble and grief we were comforted about you because of your faith;

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    1 For it is my desire to give you news of the great fight I am making for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh;

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    26 So that your pride in me may be increased in Christ Jesus through my being present with you again.

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    8 And I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may have news of how we are, and so that he may give your hearts comfort;

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    15 For it is possible that for this reason he was parted from you for a time, so that you might have him for ever;

    16 No longer as a servant, but more than a servant, a brother, very dear to me specially, but much more to you, in the flesh as well as in the Lord.

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    7 For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

    8 And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

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    17 But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

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    14 But you did well to have care for me in my need.

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    30 Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

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    8 For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.

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    12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.

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    2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

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    16 Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.

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    8 For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

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    13 For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.

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    11 For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong;

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    23 Epaphras, my brother-prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you his love;

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    1 So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.