6. being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.
7. Even as it is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are joint partakers of my grace.
8. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9. And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception,
10. that ye may approve the best, that ye may be sincere and without offense until the day of Christ,
11. being filled with fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
12. But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel,
13. so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace and in all other places;
14. and many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
15. Some indeed preach the Christ even out of envy and strife, but others also out of good will.