5for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;
6being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
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.