Only demean yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ; that, whether coming and seeing you, or being absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye are standing fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the Gospel;

fill ye up my joy, that ye think the same thing; having the same love; united in soul; minding the one thing;

because, for the work of Christ, he came near to death; imperiling his soul, that he might fill up your lack of ministry toward me.

as to zeal, persecuting the assembly: as to the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.