πολιτεύομαι

And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

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;