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

but he humbled himself, having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men; and having been found in fashion like a man;

he humbled himself, being obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

But you know his integrity, that, as a child a father, he served along with me in the gospel.

since he was longing after you all, and grieving, because you heard that he was sick.

For he was indeed nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not only him, but me also, in order that I may not have sorrow upon sorrow.

because he was nigh unto death on account of the work of Christ, having jeoparded his life, in order that he might fulfill your deficiency of ministry towards me.

but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

who will transform the body of our humility, similitudinous to the body of his own glory, according to the energy by which he is able indeed to subdue all things to himself.

I indeed know how to be poor, and I know how to abound: in every thing and in all things I learned both to flourish and to be poor, both to abound and to be destitute.