Nevertheless, he made himself of no reputation, and took on him the shape of a servant, and became like unto men, and was found in his apparel as a man.

Wherefore God hath exalted him, and given him a name above all names:

Ye know the proof of him, how that as a son with the father, so with me bestowed he his labour upon the gospel.

Him I hope to send as soon as I know how it will go with me.

and no doubt he was sick, and that nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him: not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have had sorrow upon sorrow.

I sent him therefore the diligentlier, that when ye should see him, ye might rejoice again, and I might be the less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and make much of such:

and might be found in him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law: But that which springeth of the faith which is in Christ. I mean, the righteousness which cometh of God through faith

in knowing him, and the virtue of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his passions, that I might be conformable unto his death,