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.