Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye are seen as lights in the world,

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Him therefore I hope to send forthwith, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me:

I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Not that I seek for the gift; but I seek for the fruit that increaseth to your account.