What you are doing is much more than a service that supplies God's people with what they need. It is something that will make many others thank God.
Please help us by praying for us. Then many people will give thanks for the blessings we receive in answer to all these prayers.
We share in the terrible sufferings of Christ, but also in the wonderful comfort he gives.
They even asked and begged us to let them have the joy of giving their money for God's people.
I don't need to write to you about the money you plan to give for God's people.
I think I ought to send my dear friend Epaphroditus back to you. He is a follower and a worker and a soldier of the Lord, just as I am. You sent him to look after me,
If we have all we need and see one of our own people in need, we must have pity on that person, or else we cannot say we love God.