I am glad that Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus have arrived, for they have made up for your absence.
for he nearly died in the service of Christ by risking his life to make up for the services you were not here to render me.
even when I ran short, during my stay with you, I was no encumbrance to anybody, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my wants. Thus I kept myself, as I intend to keep myself, from being a burden to you in any way.
I would have liked to keep him beside me, that as your deputy he might serve me during my imprisonment for the gospel;
(Well, I did baptize the household of Stephanas, but no one else, as far as I remember.)
But the God who comforts the dejected comforted me by the arrival of Titus.