For your mutual participation in the good news from the first day until now;

Therefore if there is any encouragement and comfort in Christ [as there certainly is in abundance], if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship [that we share] in the Spirit, if [there is] any [great depth of] affection and compassion,

I entreat you to make my happiness complete--Live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit.

To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death;