9. And this is my prayer: that your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception,
10. to discern what is of value, so that you may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
11. filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ for the glory and praise of God.
12. I want you to know, brothers, that my situation has turned out rather to advance the gospel,
13. so that my imprisonment has become well known in Christ throughout the whole praetorium and to all the rest,
14. and so that the majority of the brothers, having taken encouragement in the Lord from my imprisonment, dare more than ever to proclaim the word fearlessly.
15. Of course, some preach Christ from envy and rivalry, others from good will.
16. The latter act out of love, aware that I am here for the defense of the gospel;
17. the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not from pure motives, thinking that they will cause me trouble in my imprisonment.
18. What difference does it make, as long as in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is being proclaimed? And in that I rejoice.Indeed I shall continue to rejoice,
19. for I know that this will result in deliverance for me through your prayers and support from the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
20. My eager expectation and hope is that I shall not be put to shame in any way, but that with all boldness, now as always, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.