8. God is my witness that I feel affection for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus.
9. This is my prayer: that your love might become even more and more rich with knowledge and all kinds of insight.
10. I pray this so that you will be able to decide what really matters and so you will be sincere and blameless on the day of Christ.
11. I pray that you will then be filled with the fruit of righteousness, which comes from Jesus Christ, in order to give glory and praise to God.
12. Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the things that have happened to me have actually advanced the gospel.
13. The whole Praetorian Guard and everyone else knows that I’m in prison for Christ.
14. Most of the brothers and sisters have had more confidence through the Lord to speak the word boldly and bravely because of my jail time.
15. Some certainly preach Christ with jealous and competitive motives, but others preach with good motives.