²⁸ Therefore I am all the more eager to send him,^(A) so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety. ²⁹ So then, welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor people like him,^{(B) 30} because he almost died for the work of Christ. He risked his life to make up for the help you yourselves could not give me.^(C)