001:026 so that, as Christians, you may have additional reason for glorying about me as the result of my being with you again.
001:027 Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ, in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent, only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder for the faith of the Good News.
001:028 Never for a moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness will be to them a sure token of impending destruction, but to you it will be a sure token of your salvation— a token coming from God.
001:029 For you have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ—
not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf;
001:030 maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once
saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.
002:001 If then I can appeal to you as the followers of Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love and any common sharing of the Spirit, or if you have any tender-heartedness and compassion, make my joy complete by being of one mind,
002:002 united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.
002:003 Do nothing in a spirit of factiousness or of vainglory, but, with true humility, let every one regard the rest as being of more account than himself;
002:004 each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests, but on those of others also.
002:005 Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus.