Life Worthy of the Gospel

Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one for the faith of the gospel

then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

I have no one else like him, who will show genuine concern for your welfare.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,

For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only;