For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

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

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.