because I am hearing of your love and of the faith which you hold, not only toward the Lord Jesus Christ, but toward all the saints.

Once you found him "unprofitable," but now he is "profitable" to you and to me.

But without your consent I was unwilling to do anything, so that your kindness to me might be of your own free will, and not of compulsion.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a brother beloved; especially dear to me, but how much more to you, both as a man and a fellow Christian.

I Paul am writing this in my own handwriting, "I will repay you." But I will not mention that you owe me, over and over, your very soul.