For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints are refreshed by you, brother.
For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge such persons.
Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yes, and we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying over you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
For this reason also we thank God without ceasing, because, when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectively works also in you who believe.
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
For what thanks can we render to God again for you for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.
I rejoiced greatly that I found some of your children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.