And I pray that your love may grow stronger and stronger, [along] with how much you know, and [that you may grow] in your ability to comprehend things.

so that, because of me, your confidence may grow in Christ Jesus when I come to you again.

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.

For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

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

Nevertheless, so far as we have advanced, be it our care to walk by the same rule, to mind the same thing.

But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

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