Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:

For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;

Him then I am hoping to send as quickly as possible, when I am able to see how things will go for me:

For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief.

I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:

And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;

I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.