28. I am all the more eager, then, to send him to you, so that you will be glad again when you see him, and my own sorrow will disappear.
29. Receive him, then, with joy, as a brother in the Lord. Show respect to all such people as he,
30. because he risked his life and nearly died for the sake of the work of Christ, in order to give me the help that you yourselves could not give.