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

²⁷ And no doubt he was sick, very near 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 that for the ^[a]work of Christ he was near unto death, and regarded not his life, to fulfill that service which was lacking on your part toward me.