Therefore, if there is any encouragement in the Messiah, if there is any comfort of love, if there is any fellowship in the Spirit, if there is any compassion and sympathy,

Therefore, I hope to send him as soon as I see how things are going to turn out for me.

Therefore, I am especially eager to send him so that you may have the joy of seeing him again, and so that I may feel relieved.

Therefore, those of us who are mature should think this way. And if you think differently about anything, God will show you how to think.

Therefore, my dear brothers whom I long for, my joy and my victor's crown, this is how you must stand firm in the Lord, dear friends.