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

²⁷ For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

³⁰ Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.