who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged of God.

Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.

ye also labouring together by supplication for us that the gift towards us, through means of many persons, may be the subject of the thanksgiving of many for us.

and to pass through to Macedonia by you, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and to be set forward by you to Judaea.

For if I grieve you, who also is it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?

But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in the Christ, and makes manifest the odour of his knowledge through us in every place.

And such confidence have we through the Christ towards God:

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace abounding through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,

through glory and dishonour, through evil report and good report: as deceivers, and true;

and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.

I do not speak as commanding it, but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.

but we have sent with him the brother whose praise is in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;

And we have sent with them our brother whom we have often proved to be of diligent zeal in many things, and now more diligently zealous through the great confidence he has as to you.

enriched in every way unto all free-hearted liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

they glorifying God through the proof of this ministration, by reason of your subjection, by profession, to the glad tidings of the Christ, and your free-hearted liberality in communicating towards them and towards all;

and through a window in a basket I was let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.