⁷ For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.

¹³ So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.

²⁰ So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.

¹⁶ May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains;

⁴ My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

³ For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.

⁴ I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.

⁵ My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;

⁶ Who have given witness to the church of your love for them: and you will do well to send them on their way well cared for, as is right for servants of God:

⁴ It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.

⁹ For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;

¹⁹ For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?

¹³ And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

³ Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;