because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave unto him the name which is above every name;

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child'serveth a father,'so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.

Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me:

for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor:

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith:

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.