2. Grace to you, and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
3. I thank my God whenever I remember you,
4. always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
5. for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
6. being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Yeshua the Messiah.
7. It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
8. For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Messiah Yeshua.
9. This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
10. so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Messiah;