so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,

{What is the result?} Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. But also I will rejoice,

so that [what] you can be proud of may increase in Christ Jesus because of me through my return again to you.

Only to what we have attained, to the same hold on.

But I have received everything [in full] and have an abundance; {I am well supplied} [because] I received from Epaphroditus {what you had sent}, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.