For the ministry of this service not only supplies the things lacking of the saints, but also multiplying through many thanksgivings to God,
with you also helping together by prayer for us, so that the gracious gift by many persons be the cause of thanksgiving through many for us.
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds by Christ.
with much beseeching, begging us that they might receive of us the grace and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints.
For indeed regarding the ministry to the saints, it is not necessary for me to write to you.
Yet I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and he who ministered to my wants.
But whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother having need, and shuts up his bowels from him, how does the love of God dwell in him?