For this favour on the part of Christ is granted you, not only that ye should believe on him, but also that ye should suffer for his sake;

Wherefore God also hath transcendently exalted him, and bestowed on him a name which is above every name:

For I have no one like minded with him, who will genuinely care for your affairs.

But ye have known the trial of him, that, as a son with a father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Him therefore I hope to send immediately as soon as I see clearly what will become of me.

For sick indeed he was, 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 seeing him once more ye may rejoice, and I be less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and honourably treat those that are such:

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

that I may know him, and the virtue of his resurrection, and communion with his sufferings, being conformed to his death;

who shall transform our body of humiliation, that it may be conformed to his body of glory, according to the effectual working of him who is able to subdue even all things to himself.