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

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

for he greatly desired you all and was anxious, because you heard that he was sick.

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

because on account of the work he was nigh to death, not having consulted properly for his life, that he might fully supply your lack of service to me.

Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ.