Not that we domineer over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy was the joy of you all.

My confidence in you is great; my boasting in your behalf is great. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

Because of this, we have been comforted. And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.