I pray that by their participation in your loyal faith they may have a vivid sense of how much good we Christians can attain.

I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ's People have been cheered, brother, by you.

Once he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you as well as to me.

[Now] I am sending him back to you in person, [as though he were] part of my very self.

Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;

Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?

If therefore you regard me as a comrade, receive him as if he were I myself.

If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;

I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.