4. Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
5. For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
6. Being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7. Even as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; since as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.
8. For God is my witness, how greatly I long after you all in the affections of Jesus Christ.
9. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10. That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ;
11. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12. But I wish you to understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have served rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
13. So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
14. And many of the brethren in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.