for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

for I know [with confidence] that this will turn out for my deliverance and spiritual well-being, through your prayers and the [superabundant] supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ [which upholds me].

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and honourably treat those that are such:

Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

tread in my steps, my brethren, and fix your eyes upon those who follow the example I give you.