Because the ministry of this service is not only completely filling up the things lacking of the saints, but also multiplying through many thanksgivings to God,
you also laboring together for us in prayer, that the gracious gift by many persons be the cause of thanksgiving through many for us.
Because even as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
with much appeal begging us to receive of us the grace and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints.
For indeed concerning the ministry to the saints, it is beyond necessity for me to write to you.
But I thought it needful to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellowworker, and my fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister of my need,
Whoever has the means of life of the world, and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from him, how does the love of God abide in him?