and yet your needs make it very necessary for me to stay on here.

I am convinced of this, and so I know that I shall stay on and serve you all, to help you to develop and to be glad in your faith.

Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.

Follow my example, brothers, all of you, and notice those who follow the pattern we have set you.

And I beg you, my true comrade, help them, for they toiled at my side in spreading the good news, with Clement and the rest of my fellow-workers, whose names are in the book of life.