because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,

Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child a father, he has served with me in the work of the glad tidings.

Him therefore I hope to send immediately, as soon as I shall see how it goes with me:

for he was also sick close to death, but God had mercy on him, and not indeed on him alone, but also on me, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that seeing him ye might again rejoice, and that I might be the less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honour;

and that I may be found in him, not having my righteousness, which would be on the principle of law, but that which is by faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God through faith,

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

I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.