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.

Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

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

but emptied Himself [without renouncing or diminishing His deity, but only temporarily giving up the outward expression of divine equality and His rightful dignity] by assuming the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men [He became completely human but was without sin, being fully God and fully man].

And having been found in a form like a man, he lowered himself, having become obedient until death, even of death from a 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,

And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

You too, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.

For I have no one else [like him who is] so kindred a spirit who will be genuinely concerned for your [spiritual] welfare.

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

Welcome him home in the Lord with great joy, and appreciate and honor men like him;

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

That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, 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.

who, by exerting that power which enables Him even to subject everything to Himself, will [not only] transform [but completely refashion] our earthly bodies so that they will be like His glorious resurrected body.

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.