Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

I hope to send him then, as soon as ever I see how it will go with me ??24 though I am confident in the Lord that I shall be coming myself before long.

So I am specially eager to send him, that you may be glad when you see him again, and thus my own anxiety may be lightened.

to see if I too can attain the resurrection from the dead.