Because the ministry of this service not only is supplying the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God,
you also laboring together for us in prayer, that thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf for the gift given to us through many.
Because just as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.
with much appeal, begging us for the grace and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints--
Now concerning the ministering to the saints, it is unnecessary for me to write to you;
Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my needs;
But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother having need, and shuts off his compassion towards him, how does the love of God abide in him?