Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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

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

Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

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

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.