that your boasting may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence again to you.

The more eagerly, therefore, I did send him, that having seen him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful;

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

if anyhow I may attain to the rising again of the dead.

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;

And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;

because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent;