2Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,
4always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,
5for your contribution to the good news from the first day till now,
6having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform [it] till a day of Jesus Christ,
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,