For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,

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

For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.

Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold men like him in high regard;

and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,

that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.