since you are encountering the same conflict that you saw me face and now hear that I am facing.

Indeed, he greatly missed all of you and was distressed because you heard that he had been ill.

And what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that – whether I come and see you or whether I remain absent – I should hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,