4. In every prayer of mine for you all, I have always made requests with joy,
5. due to your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now.
6. I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.
7. It is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonments and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are fellow partakers of my grace.
8. For God is my witness, how I long after you all with the affection of Jesus Christ.
9. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all discernment,
10. that you may approve things that are excellent so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
11. being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which comes through Jesus Christ, for the glory and praise of God.
12. But I want you to know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have resulted in advancing the gospel,
13. so that my imprisonments in Christ have become known throughout the entire palace guard and to all the rest.
14. And a great many of the brothers in the Lord, having become confident because of my incarcerations, have dared to speak the word without fear.