For just as we have more than our share of suffering for the Christ, so also through the Christ we have more than our share of comfort.

just as some few of you have recognized us as your reason for boasting, even as you will be ours, on the day of Jesus our Lord.

And in just requital--I speak as to my children--let your hearts expand also.

Yes, just as you are already very rich in faith, readiness of speech, knowledge, unwearied zeal, and in the love that is in you, implanted by us, see to it that this grace of liberal giving also flourishes in you.

And now complete the doing also, in order that, just as there was then the eagerness in desiring, there may now be the accomplishment in proportion to your means.

Is it outward appearances you look to? If any man is confident as regards himself that he specially belongs to Christ, let him consider again and reflect that just as he belongs to Christ, so also do we.