Only be citizens worthy of the good-news of the Christ, so that, whether having come and having seen you or being absent, I may hear things about you that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith o

For they all seek the things of themselves, not the things of Christ Jesus.

Therefore I sent him more urgently, so that having seen him again, ye may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful.

And ye Philippians also have seen that, in the beginning of the good-news when I departed from Macedonia, not one congregation shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except ye only,

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.