15. Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded; and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
16. Nevertheless, in that unto which we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us have the same mind.
17. Brethren, be imitators of me and consider those who so walk, as ye have us for a pattern.
18. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross {Gr. stauros – stake} of Christ;