6. convinced of this same thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Christ Jesus,
7. just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me.
8. For God is my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
9. And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
10. so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,
11. having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
12. Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have happened instead for the progress of the gospel,
13. so that my imprisonment in Christ has become known in the whole praetorium and to all the rest,
14. and most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, dare even more to speak the word without fear.
15. Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will.
16. The latter do so from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.
17. The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction in my imprisonment.
18. What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. But also I will rejoice,
19. for I know that this will turn out to me for deliverance through your prayer and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
20. according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death.