For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

Therefore God has highly exalted Him, and has given Him a name which is above every name,

But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me in the gospel.

Therefore I hope to send him presently, as soon as I shall see the things about me.

For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, so that you may rejoice when you see him again, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Therefore receive him in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor,

and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but through the faith of Christ, the righteousness of God by faith,

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable to His death;