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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Philippians 2 contains 30 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.