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

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

¹⁵ Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

³ To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

⁶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

4 Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

³ I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

¹³ Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

² Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

¹⁴ And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.