Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your reasonable service.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore [you] on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

We then, [as] workers together [with Him] also plead with [you] not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Now I, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ -- who in presence [am] lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Brethren, I urge you to become like me, for I [became] like you. You have not injured me at all.

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

[yet] for love's sake I rather appeal [to you -- being] such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ --

I appeal to you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten [while] in my chains,

Beloved, I beg [you] as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

Now I beg you, brethren, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in prayers to God for me,

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;

for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you,

I charge [you] before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.

I charge [you] therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] For brethren to dwell together in unity!

'then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them.

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

"By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

"I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.

Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus,

that you may with one mind [and] one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.

Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.

Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Therefore if [there is] any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy,

[Let] nothing [be done] through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

Nevertheless, to [the degree] that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Who [is] wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct [that] his works [are done] in the meekness of wisdom.

This wisdom does not descend from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, demonic.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Finally, all [of you be] of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, [be] tenderhearted, [be] courteous;

not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

that there should be no schism in the body, but [that] the members should have the same care for one another.

"No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.

"No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse.

So there was a division among the people because of Him.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, "This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" And there was a division among them.

Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these sayings.