Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy; for in your faith you are standing firm.

And this is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.

Great is my boldness toward you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I have been filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

For this reason we have been comforted. And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

that in a great testing by affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the richness of their generosity.