For you are our glory and our joy.
"The future event Paul is looking toward is identical with the appearance of every Christian before the bema (’judgment seat’) of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:10), where the works of every Christian will be evaluated. Because of his converts’ evident spiritual attainments, Paul feels that this will be an occasion of joy and victory." [Note: Thomas, p. 262. Cf. Earl Radmacher, "Believers and the Bema," Grace Evangelical Society News 10:3 (May-June 1995):1, 4; and Joe L. Wall, Going for the Gold, pp. 129, 152-63.] 