[because I] hear about your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

and I pray that through coming to know every good thing about us as Christians they may effectually share your faith.

whom I wished to detain about myself, that in thy stead he might have waited upon me during my bonds for the gospel:

but I did not want to do anything without first getting your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

I, Paul, put my own hand to it--I will repay you myself. I say nothing about your owing me your very self.