8. For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Christ Jesus.
9. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all intelligence,
10. that ye may judge of and approve the things that are more excellent, in order that ye may be pure and without offence for Christ's day,
11. being complete as regards the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ, to God's glory and praise.
12. But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the glad tidings,
13. so that my bonds have become manifest as being in Christ in all the praetorium and to all others;
14. and that the most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord through my bonds, dare more abundantly to speak the word of God fearlessly.
15. Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ.
16. These indeed out of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the glad tidings;