27. Only let your behavior be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, so that, whether I return and see you, or whether, being absent, I hear about you, still you may stand firm with one spirit, with one mind, laboring together for the faith of the Gospel.
28. And in nothing be terrified by the adversaries. For what is to them is an occasion of perdition, is to you an occasion of salvation, and this is from God.
29. For this has been given to you on behalf of Christ, not only so that you may believe in him, but even so that you may suffer with him,
30. engaging in the same struggle, of a kind which you also have seen in me, and which you now have heard from me.