And I wrote the same to you that coming I might not have sorrow for those in whom I ought to have joy, having trusted in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.

Not that we are lords of your faith, but co-laborers of your joy; for you stand firm by the faith.

I have great boldness towards you, and great glorying on your account; I am full of comfort, I have a super-abounding joy in all our afflictions.

On this account we were comforted. And in addition to our comfort, we rejoiced more abundantly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all;

that in much trying affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.