And we have great joy and consolation over thy love: For by thee, brother, the saints' hearts are comforted.

whom I have sent home again. Thou therefore receive him, that is to say mine own heart,

whom I would fain have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel.

If he have hurt thee or oweth thee ought, that lay to my charge.

I, Paul, have written it with mine own hand. I will recompense it. So that I do not say to thee how that thou owest unto me even thine own self.