For to you it has been granted for the sake of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake,

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and bestowed on him the name which is above every name,

I have no one else like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

Therefore I hope to send him immediately, as soon as I see how things go with me;

Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may have less anxiety.

So receive him in the Lord with all joy; and honor men like him,

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christthe righteousness that comes from God and is by faith,

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

who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.