immediate context with the expectation of Christ’s glorious return (3:20–21) reveals that Paul has in mind the consummation of the ages. Petty bickering looks trivial, if not foolish, when seen from the perspective of the Lord’s coming in judgment. 6 Anxiety can be good or bad. Paul has anxiety for the progress of the gospel (2:28) and the condition of the individual churches he has founded, and he sometimes loses sleep over them (2 Co 11:28), but he does not seem to regard this concern to be a noxious