but to you it was granted as a favor in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but in His behalf to suffer also;

Wherefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed upon Him the name which is above every name;

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child with a father, he served with me in furtherance of the Gospel.

Him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send immediately, as soon as I may look away from the things which concern me:

For, in fact, he was sick, near to 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 sent him, therefore, the more urgently, that, seeing him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.

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

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of law, but that which is through faith in Christ??he righteousness which is of God by faith:

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

I am strong enough for all things in Him Who strengtheneth me.