For to you it is granted as a favor from Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for his sake:

Wherefore God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name above every name:

But ye know the proof I have had of him, that as son with a father he served with me in the gospel.

I hope therefore to send him as soon as I see the issue of my own affairs.

For indeed he was sick and nigh unto 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 have sent him therefore the more desirously, that when ye see him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in high esteem:

Yea doubtless and I count all but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and I account them but dung, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him,

not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is by the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him,