For to you it is given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but, also, to suffer for him,

For which reason God has highly exalted him, and, also, bestowed on him a name that is above every name;

Him, therefore, I hope to send immediately, as soon as I know how it may go with me.

And, indeed, he was sick near to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

I sent him, therefore, the sooner, that, by seeing him again, you might rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful.

Receive him, therefore, in the Lord with all joy, and regard such as worthy of honor;

and be found in him, not having my own righteousness which was by law, but the righteousness which is by faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, by conforming myself to his death,