that ye might accept things most excellent, that ye might be pure and such as should hurt no man's conscience, until the day of Christ;

For unto you it is given, that not only ye should believe on Christ: but also suffer for his sake,

That in the name of Jesus should every knee bow, both of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under earth;

and that all tongues should confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord unto the praise of God the father.

For he longed after you, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard say that he should be sick,

and no doubt he was sick, and that nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him: not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have had sorrow upon sorrow.

I sent him therefore the diligentlier, that when ye should see him, ye might rejoice again, and I might be the less sorrowful.