but especially those who walk after the flesh in unclean lust, and who despise government. Presumptuous, willful men! they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries:

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

Remember, therefore, how you have received and heard, and be watchful and repent. If, therefore, you do not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you.

Let us walk

cultivate the same disposition, one to ward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;

Now, may the God of patience and comfort make you of the same mind one toward another, according to Christ Jesus;

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

and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave him self for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.

As, therefore, you received Christ Jesus our Lord, so walk in him,

Let us mind

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Christ, that, whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

fulfill my joy, that you be of the same mind, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind;

I beseech Euodia, and I beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

General references

If any one will do his will, he shall know with respect to the teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak of myself.