not that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy. For in respect to faith ye stand firm.

And I wrote about this very matter, that I might not on my coming have sorrow from those who ought to gladden me, having confidence in all of you, that my joy is the joy of you all.

Great is my confidence toward you, great is my glorying on your account; I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our trouble.

Therefore we have been comforted; but in our comfort we rejoiced still more on account of the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all;

that under a great trial of distress the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty increased the riches of their liberality;