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.