7It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.
8For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
12Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the gospel;
13so that my bonds became revealed in Christ throughout the whole praetorian guard, and to all the rest;
