Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick:

for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.