⁸ Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

¹⁵ I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

¹⁷ Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

¹¹ For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;

¹² that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other's faith, both yours and mine.

¹ Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

⁷ even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

²⁸ whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

¹² Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

¹ Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our beloved fellow worker,

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

²⁵ But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and minister to my need;

²⁶ since he longed for you all, and was very troubled, because you had heard that he was sick.

²⁰ For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

¹⁵ Hear you, and give ear; don't be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

¹⁶ Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

¹⁷ But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.

¹ I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,

² that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

³ For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,

¹ Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.

²⁹ I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ.

¹ Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

¹¹ Our mouth is open to you, Corinthians. Our heart is enlarged.

¹² You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

¹³ Now in return, I speak as to my children, you also be open wide.

¹⁹ My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

²⁴ But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Gospel of the grace of God.

² A certain centurion's servant, who was dear to him, was sick and at the point of death.