'Hear' in the Bible

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.

maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.