But, for your sakes, it may be more needful that I should still remain here in the body.

So that, when you once more have me among you, you, in your union with Christ Jesus, may find in me fresh cause for exultation.

Nothing should be done in a factious spirit or from vanity, but each of you should with all humility regard others as of more account than himself,

Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own Salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.

I am all the more ready, therefore, to send him, so that the sight of him may revive your spirits and my own sorrow be lightened.

Though I, if any man, have cause to rely even upon them. If any one thinks he can rely upon external privileges, far more can I!

More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as refuse, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him;

Indeed, even while I was still in Thessalonica, you sent more than once to relieve my wants.