because it was given to you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him but also to suffer for him,

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

Him therefore I hope to send to you as soon as I know how it will be with me;

For indeed he was sick nigh to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

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

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in estimation,

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

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the participation of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

I endure all things with him that strengthens me.