If there is, therefore, any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affections and compassions,

Him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send immediately, as soon as I may look away from the things which concern me:

I sent him, therefore, the more urgently, that, seeing him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful.

Receive him, therefore, in the Lord with all joy, and hold such in honor;

Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, think this: and, if in anything ye think differently, even this God will reveal to you;

Therefore, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.