Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,

For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick.

He was indeed sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me likewise, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, to supply your deficiency of service toward me.

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected: but I pursue, if I may apprehend that, for which I was also apprehended by Christ Jesus.