2. grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. I give thanks to my God at every remembrance of you,
4. praying always with joy in my every prayer for all of you,
5. because of your partnership for the gospel from the first day until now.
6. I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.
7. It is right that I should think this way about all of you, because I hold you in my heart, you who are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.
8. For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
9. And this is my prayer: that your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception,
10. to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
11. filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
12. I want you to know, brothers, that my situation has turned out rather to advance the gospel,
13. so that my imprisonment has become well known in Christ throughout the whole praetorium and to all the rest,
14. and so that the majority of the brothers, having taken encouragement in the Lord from my imprisonment, dare more than ever to proclaim the word fearlessly.
15. Of course, some preach Christ from envy and rivalry, others from good will.