“Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.”
Philippians 2:30 (KJV)
Context Reading
28I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. 29Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: 30Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.