and specially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise lordship. Bold are they, self-willed; they do not fear speaking injuriously of dignities:

but I have against thee, that thou hast left thy first love.

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and keep it and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I shall come upon thee.

Let us walk

Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

Now the God of endurance and of encouragement give to you to be like-minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;

And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace upon them and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in him,

Let us mind

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

I exhort Euodia, and exhort Syntyche, to be of the same mind in the Lord;

General references

If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or that I speak from myself.