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

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

¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

²⁶ When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

¹⁴ while they themselves also, with supplication on your behalf, yearn for you by reason of the exceeding grace of God in you.

² Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

¹³ Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

³ I thank my God whenever I remember you,

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

⁶ Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,

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

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

¹³ Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

¹⁷ David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house.

²⁷ If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; For comforters, but I found none.

²⁵ Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, But a kind word makes it glad.

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.

²⁸ "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

³⁷ He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

³⁵ Jesus wept.

³⁶ The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"

³⁹ [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.