for all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

for he greatly desired you all and was anxious, because you heard that he was sick.

For indeed he was sick nigh to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in estimation,

But whatever things were my gain, these I have considered a loss for the sake of Christ.

But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ