For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
For they gave comfort to my spirit and to yours: for which cause give respect to such people.
So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.
My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.
Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;
And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?
For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;
May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains;
So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.
It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.