7according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and [in] the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.
8For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,
9and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,
10for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,
11being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that [is] through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
12And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,
13so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places -- all,