Philippians 2:26 - Compare All Versions

For he longs for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill.

for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.

I am sending him because he has been longing to see you, and he was very distressed that you heard he was ill.

since he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you heard that he was sick.

For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.

since he was longing for you all, and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

But for right now, I’m dispatching Epaphroditus, my good friend and companion in my work. You sent him to help me out; now I’m sending him to help you out. He has been wanting in the worst way to get back with you. Especially since recovering from the illness you heard about, he’s been wanting to get back and reassure you that he is just fine. He nearly died, as you know, but God had mercy on him. And not only on him—he had mercy on me, too. His death would have been one huge grief piled on top of all the others.

because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

For he has been longing for all of you and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.