For to you it is given on behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

For all seek their own, not the things which are of Jesus Christ.

For he longed after you all and was full of heaviness, because you had heard that he had been sick.

For indeed he was sick, coming near death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Therefore receive him in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such in honor,

But no, rather, I also count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them to be dung, so that I may win Christ