begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of
Jesus Christ. . . . 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; and in nothing terrified by
your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of
perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. For
unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to
believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake. Phil. 1:6,
27-29.
