For it has been granted you in Christ's behalf, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,

for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness.

Therefore I have been the more eager to send him, in order that you may rejoice in seeing him again, and that I may have one sorrow less.

I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want.