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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他一直在想念你們眾人，並且因為你們聽見他病了，他就非常難過。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 很 想 念 你 们 众 人 ， 并 且 极 其 难 过 ， 因 为 你 们 听 见 他 病 了 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Do everything without complaining or arguing. ¹⁵ Then you will be innocent and without any wrong. You will be God's children without fault. But you are living with crooked and mean people all around you, among whom you shine like stars in the dark world. ¹⁶ You offer the teaching that gives life. So when Christ comes again, I can be happy because my work was not wasted. I ran the race and won. ¹⁷ Your faith makes you offer your lives as a sacrifice in serving God. If I have to offer my own blood with your sacrifice, I will be happy and full of joy with all of you. ¹⁸ You also should be happy and full of joy with me. ¹⁹ I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon. I will be happy to learn how you are. ²⁰ I have no one else like Timothy, who truly cares for you. ²¹ Other people are interested only in their own lives, not in the work of Jesus Christ. ²² You know the kind of person Timothy is. You know he has served with me in telling the Good News, as a son serves his father. ²³ I plan to send him to you quickly when I know what will happen to me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he longed: Philippians 1:3, Philippians 1:8, Philippians 4:1, 2 Samuel 13:39, Romans 1:11, 2 Corinthians 9:14

full: Job 9:27, Psalms 69:20, Proverbs 12:25, Isaiah 61:3, Matthew 11:28, Matthew 26:37, Romans 9:2, 1 Peter 1:6

ye had: 2 Samuel 24:17, John 11:35, John 11:36, Acts 21:13, Romans 12:15, 1 Corinthians 12:26, Galatians 6:2, Ephesians 3:13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:20 - I will 2 Kings 13:14 - fallen sick Psalms 41:3 - strengthen Philippians 2:28 - ye see Philippians 4:18 - Epaphroditus 1 Thessalonians 2:8 - affectionately 2 Timothy 1:4 - desiring 2 Timothy 4:20 - sick

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he longed after you,.... This verse and Philippians 2:28 contain the reasons of the apostle's sending him; and the first is, because he had a very vehement and longing desire after all of them; to see them, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions add, and as it is read in the Alexandrian and Claromontane copies, and in others: it was not the city of Philippi he longed to see, which might be his native place, nor his natural relations and family, but the church there; and not the officers of it only, the bishops and deacons, but all the members of it, rich and poor, high and low, strong and weak believers:

and was full of heaviness: almost pressed down, quite disheartened and dispirited, ready to sink and die away, not so much with his own disorder and illness, as with sorrow on account of the church at Philippi:

because that ye had heard that he had been sick: he understood that the news of his sickness had reached them, and he knew how distressing it would be to them, that it would cut them to the heart, and press them heavily, fearing they should never see his face, nor hear his voice more. We have here an instance of that mutual love, tender affection and sympathy; which were in the first churches, and what subsisted between ministers and people; see how they loved one another! but, alas! this first love is left.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he longed after you all - He was desirous to see you all, and to relieve your anxiety in regard to his safety.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 26. Ye had heard that he had been sick. — "In this passage," says Dr. Paley, "no intimation is given that the recovery of Epaphroditus was miraculous, it is plainly spoken of as a natural event. This instance, together with that in the Second Epistle to Timothy, Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick, affords a proof that the power of performing cures, and, by parity of reason, of working other miracles, was a power which only visited the apostles occasionally, and did not at all depend upon their own will. Paul undoubtedly would have healed Epaphroditus if he could; nor would he have left Trophimus at Miletum sick, had the power of working cures awaited his disposal. Had this epistle been a forgery, forgery on this occasion would not have spared a miracle; much less would it have introduced St. Paul professing the utmost anxiety for the safety of his friend, yet acknowledging himself unable to help him, which he does almost expressly in the case of Trophimus, Him have I left sick; and virtually in the passage before us, in which he felicitates himself on the recovery of Epaphroditus in terms which almost exclude the supposition of any supernatural means being used to effect it. This is a reverse which nothing but truth would have imposed." Horae Paulinae, page 234.