only conduct yourselves in a manner becoming the gospel of Christ, that whether I come to see you, or else am absent, I may have this account of you, that you are stedfastly of the same resolution, and unanimously contend for the faith of the gospel,

being engag'd in the same conflict, in which you saw I was formerly, and hear that I am at present engag'd.

compleat my joy, by pursuing the same view, living in mutual love, by being unanimous, and cultivating that harmony.

for the same temper of mind ought to be in you as was in Christ Jesus: