Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

if any bowels of compassion, compleat ye my joy, be like-minded, maintaining the same love, with your souls united, in attending to the one thing needful.

To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

Nevertheless, he made himself of no reputation, and took on him the shape of a servant, and became like unto men, and was found in his apparel as a man.

and being found in form like a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient even till death, and the death of the cross.

that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world,

Yet even if I am being poured out like an offering as part of the sacrifice and service I offer for your faith, I rejoice, and I share my joy with all of you.

In like manner do ye also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

For I have no other like him with a genuine concern for your welfare,

And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold in honor men like him;

Beware of those that are like dogs, beware of evil doers, beware of the concision.

I want to know the Messiah what his resurrection power is like and what it means to share in his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

In the hope that, if I become like him in death, I may possibly attain to the resurrection from the dead.

For there are many who live, as I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, like enemies of the cross of Christ.

which shall change into another fashion our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself.

I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be like-minded in [fellowship with] the Lord.

I have received your payment in full, and more too. I am amply supplied after getting the things you sent by Epaphroditus; they are like sweet incense, the kind of sacrifice that God accepts and approves.