Study Desk

Now, so that you may also be informed about how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus, the dear brother and a faithful worker for the Lord, will tell you everything.

Whenever I pray for all of you I always pray with joy,

It is right for me to think this way about you all, because I have you on my heart; for whether I am in chains or defending and establishing the Good News, you are all sharing with me in this privileged work.

God can testify how I long for all of you with the deep affection of the Messiah Yeshua.

so that you will be able to determine what is best and thus be pure and without blame for the Day of the Messiah,

The latter act from love, aware that I am put where I am for defending the Good News;

while the former announce the Messiah out of selfish ambition, with impure motives, supposing they can stir up trouble for me in prison.

for I know that this will work out for my deliverance , because of your prayers and the support I get from the Spirit of Yeshua the Messiah.

For to me, life is the Messiah, and death is gain.

Then, through my being with you again, you will have even greater reason for boasting about the Messiah Yeshua.

Only conduct your lives in a way worthy of the Good News of the Messiah; so that whether I come and see you or I hear about you from a distance, you stand firm, united in spirit, fighting with one accord for the faith of the Good News,

not frightened by anything the opposition does. This will be for them an indication that they are headed for destruction and you for deliverance. And this is from God;

because for the Messiah's sake it has been granted to you not only to trust in him but also to suffer on his behalf,

Therefore, if you have any encouragement for me from your being in union with the Messiah, any comfort flowing from love, any fellowship with me in the Spirit, or any compassion and sympathy,

look out for each other's interests and not just for your own.

for God is the one working among you both the willing and the working for what pleases him.

as you hold on to the Word of Life. If you do this, I will be able to boast, when the Day of the Messiah comes, that I did not run or toil for nothing.

I have no one who compares with him, who will care so sincerely for your welfare —

since he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard he was ill.

Therefore, I am all the more eager to send him, so that you may rejoice when you see him again; and I, for my part, may be less sad.