For this favour on the part of Christ is granted you, not only that ye should believe on him, but also that ye should suffer for his sake;

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

For indeed he greatly longed after you all, and was very sorry that ye had heard that he had been sick.

For sick indeed he was, 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.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and honourably treat those that are such: