8. God is my witness that I am telling the truth when I say that my deep feeling for you all comes from the heart of Christ Jesus himself.
9. I pray that your love will keep on growing more and more, together with true knowledge and perfect judgement,
10. so that you will be able to choose what is best. Then you will be free from all impurity and blame on the Day of Christ.
11. Your lives will be filled with the truly good qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, for the glory and praise of God.
12. I want you to know, my brothers and sisters, that the things that have happened to me have really helped the progress of the gospel.
13. As a result, the whole palace guard and all the others here know that I am in prison because I am a servant of Christ.