though I am confident in the Lord that I too will be coming to see you ¹  soon.

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, ¹  that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel: ² 

Only conduct yourselves ¹  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 ²  you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel, ³