remain in the body.
001:025 I am convinced of this, and I know that I shall remain,
and shall go on working side by side with you all, to promote
your progress and joy in the faith;
001:026 so that, as Christians, you may have additional reason for
glorying about me as the result of my being with you again.
001:027 Only let the lives you live be worthy of the Good News of the Christ,
in order that, whether I come and see you or, being absent,
only hear of you, I may know that you are standing fast
in one spirit and with one mind, fighting shoulder to shoulder
for the faith of the Good News.
001:028 Never for a moment quail before your antagonists. Your fearlessness
will be to them a sure token of impending destruction,
but to you it will be a sure token of your salvation--
a token coming from God.
001:029 For you have had the privilege granted you on behalf of Christ--
not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf;
001:030 maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once
saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.
002:001 If then I can appeal to you as the followers of Christ,
if there is any persuasive power in love and any common
sharing of the Spirit, or if you have any tender-heartedness
and compassion, make my joy complete by being of one mind,
002:002 united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds
to one and the same object.
002:003 Do nothing in a spirit of factiousness or of vainglory, but,
with true humility, let every one regard the rest as being
of more account than himself;
002:004 each fixing his attention, not simply on his own interests,
but on those of others also.