Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you and be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;
(doing) nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;
even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,
Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, saluteth thee;