Now the God of patience and consolation - Such beautiful names of God are taken from the graces which He inspires: as “the God of hope” (Rom 15:13), “the God of peace” (Rom 15:33).
grant you to be likeminded - “of the same mind”
according to Christ Jesus - It is not mere unanimity which the apostle seeks for them; for unanimity in evil is to be deprecated. But it is “according to Christ Jesus” - after the sublimest model of Him whose all-absorbing desire was to do, “not His own will, but the will of Him that sent Him” (Joh 6:38).