²⁷ Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

³⁰ Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

³ Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

⁷ I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: