if you also join in helping us through your prayers, so that thanks may be given by many persons in our behalf for the favor granted to us through the prayers of many.

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

Now we pray to God that you do nothing wrong; not so that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, though we may appear unapproved.

For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak, but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you become mature.