For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong; but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.