But I exhort you, brethren, through our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you cooperate with me in your prayers to God in my behalf;

For God is my witness, how I long after you in the affections of Jesus Christ.

since he was longing after you all, and grieving, because you heard that he was sick.

But, brethren, we having been absent from you for the space of an hour, in presence, not in heart, we were the more exceedingly anxious to see your face with much desire.

Therefore no longer containing, we delighted to be left alone at Athens;

Being

serving the Lord with all humility, and tears, and temptations, which came upon me through the plots of the Jews:

because the Lamb in the midst of the throne will shepherdize them, and guide them to the fountains of the waters of life; and God will wipe every tear out of their eyes.

and he will wipe every tear out of their eyes; and there will be no more death, neither will there be any more sorrow, nor crying, nor pain: because the former things have passed away.

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Therefore you indeed also now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one taketh your joy from you.

And we write the same things to you, in order that our joy may be full.

General references

Hasten to come to me quickly.