⁸ so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us,

¹⁵ and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

¹⁶ in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

¹⁷ but if also I am poured forth upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and joy with you all,

¹¹ for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;

¹² and that is, that I may be comforted together among you, through the faith in one another, both yours and mine.

¹ So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

⁷ as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,

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

¹² Salute you doth Epaphras, who `is' of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,

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

¹⁷ Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this `is' unprofitable to you.

²⁵ And I thought `it' necessary Epaphroditus -- my brother, and fellow-workman, and fellow-soldier, and your apostle and servant to my need -- to send unto you,

²⁶ seeing he was longing after you all, and in heaviness, because ye heard that he ailed,

²⁰ for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,

¹⁵ Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken.

¹⁶ Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

¹⁷ And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.

¹ Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

² that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --

³ for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ -- for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

¹ Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that `is' to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;

²⁹ and I have known that coming unto you -- in the fulness of the blessing of the good news of Christ I shall come.

¹ And working together also we call upon `you' that ye receive not in vain the grace of God --

¹¹ Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!

¹² ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your `own' bowels,

¹³ and `as' a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say `it',) be ye enlarged -- also ye!

¹⁹ my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

²³ save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

²⁴ but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

² and a certain centurion's servant being ill, was about to die, who was much valued by him,