but to you it was granted as a favor in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but in His behalf to suffer also;

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

since he was longing after you all, and was in great distress, because ye heard that he was sick.

For, in fact, he was sick, near to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

Not that I already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.