As it is just for me to think this of you all, because ye have me in your heart, both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, being all of you partakers of the same grace with me.

Some indeed through envy and strife, and some also through good-will:

having the same conflict as ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

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.

Let the same mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

And for the same cause do ye also rejoice, and congratulate with me.

Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not irksome to me, and for you it is safe.

But in what we have attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.