⁵ For when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest. But we were troubled on every side, fightings without, and terrors within.

⁶ But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us at the coming of Titus;

⁷ and only not by his coming, but also by the consolation with which he was comforted by you, when he told us your great desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me, so that I rejoiced much more.