Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder for the faith of the Good News.

so that you may always prove yourselves to be blameless and spotless--irreproachable children of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as heavenly lights in the world,

So it is he that I hope to send as soon as ever I see how things go with me;

I send him because he is longing to see you all and is distressed at your having heard of his illness.

I am therefore all the more eager to send him, in the hope that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have the less sorrow.

Not that I crave for gifts from you, but I do want to see abundant fruit bring you honour.