²² Therefore ^(A)you too have grief now; but ^(B)I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one is going to take your joy away from you.

⁴ My ^(A)confidence ^[a]in you is great; my ^(B)boasting in your behalf is great. I am filled with ^(C)comfort; I am overflowing with ^(D)joy in all our affliction.

¹⁷ But even if I am being ^(A)poured out as a drink offering upon ^(B)the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.

^4 (A)Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!

^24 (A)Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh ^(B)I am supplementing what is lacking ^[a]in Christ’s afflictions in behalf of ^(C)His body, which is the church.

⁶ You also became ^(A)imitators of us and of the Lord, ^(B)having received ^(C)the word during great affliction with the ^(D)joy of the Holy Spirit,