⁴ Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

⁷ Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

⁸ For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

²⁵ And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

¹⁷ Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.

²⁶ For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.