¹⁸ For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that are such.

⁷ For I had much joy and comfort in thy love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

¹² But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

¹³ Therefore we have been comforted: And in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.

³² that I may come unto you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find rest.

¹¹ Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

¹² Demetrius hath the witness of all `men', and of the truth itself: yea, we also bear witness: and thou knowest that our witness is true.

⁴ Greater joy have I none than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.

⁷ Remember them that had the rule over you, men that spake unto you the word of God; and considering the issue of their life, imitate their faith.

²⁰ Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my heart in Christ.

⁶ But when Timothy came even now unto us from you, and brought us glad tidings of your faith and love, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, longing to see us, even as we also `to see' you;

⁷ for this cause, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith:

⁸ whom I have sent you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts;

²⁸ I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy; and hold such in honor:

⁶ Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, `even' God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

⁷ and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

²⁵ `As' cold waters to a thirsty soul, So is good news from a far country.

¹³ As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, `So is' a faithful messenger to them that send him; For he refresheth the soul of his masters.