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.
15. Some indeed are preaching Christ out of envy and strife, and some also from good will.
16. The former preach Christ out of contention, not sincerely, intending to add trouble to my circumstance.