because I keep hearing about your love for all the saints and the faith that you have in the Lord Jesus.

and I pray that through coming to know every good thing about us as Christians they may effectually share your faith.

whom I wished to detain about myself, that in thy stead he might have waited upon me during my bonds for the gospel:

but I would not do a single thing about it without your consent, so that this kindness of yours to me might not seem to come by compulsion but voluntarily.

I, Paul, put my own hand to it--I will repay you myself. I say nothing about your owing me your very self.