Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.
Parallel translations
- KJV Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
- BSB Nevertheless, we must live up to what we have already attained.
- NKJV Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.
- NASB however, let’s keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.
- NLT But we must hold on to the progress we have already made.
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- Col 2:6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
- Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
- Rev 2:4–5But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
- Gal 6:16As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.
- Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
- Heb 10:38–39But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
- Rom 15:5Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
- Phil 4:2I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.
- Phil 2:2make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;
- 2 Pet 2:10–20but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;
- Eph 5:2–8Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
- Gal 5:7You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?
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