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What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart
Paul asks this question to show the believers they should stop trying to persuade him. Alternate translation: "Stop what you are doing. Your weeping is breaking my heart" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
breaking my heart
To make someone sad or to discourage someone is spoken of as if it were a heart being broken. Here "heart" stands for a person's emotions. Alternate translation: "discouraging me" or "making me very sad" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
not only to be tied up
This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "not only for them to tie me up" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)
for the name of the Lord Jesus
Here "name" refers to the person of Jesus. Alternate translation: "for the sake of the Lord Jesus" or "because I believe in the Lord Jesus" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)