7even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.
8For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
10so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;
11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12Now I would have you know, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the progress of the gospel;
13so that my bonds became manifest in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;