yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

For indeed he was sick to the point of death, but God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I would not have sorrow upon sorrow.

But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account.