⁴ longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

⁹ Be diligent to come to me soon,

²¹ Be diligent to come before winter. Eubulus salutes you, as do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

¹⁷ But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

¹⁸ because we wanted to come to you--indeed, I, Paul, once and again-- but Satan hindered us.

¹⁹ For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus{TR adds "Christ"} at his coming?

²⁰ For you are our glory and our joy.

¹ Therefore, when we couldn't stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

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

⁴ He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."

¹⁷ for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

⁴ And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

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

³⁰ Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

³¹ that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

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

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

³⁷ They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,

³⁸ sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.

³¹ Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

²⁴ Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

²² Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

¹³ Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

³ to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

⁵ Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.