For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
For - motive for their not being beguiled; i:e., regard to his personal authority as though he were present.
Joying and (joying with you, inasmuch as) beholding your order - your good order (cf. "knit together," Colossians 2:2).
As a well organized body. 'Good order gives stedfastness to a military phalanx: so in the Church, love establishes all things, and there being no schisms' (Theophilus) (cf. 1 Corinthians 14:33; 1 Corinthians 14:40).
Stedfastness, х to (G3588) stereooma (G4733)] - 'the solid foundation.' As "order" expresses the outward aspect, so "stedfastness" the inner basis; not an abstract quality, but the thing in the concrete; their "faith" is the solid basis on which rests their firm attitude.