Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

For indeed he was sick, nearly to death, but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.

I have sent him all the more eagerly, therefore, so that when you see him again you may rejoice, and that I may be less anxious.

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

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

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

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.