5. because of your sharing in the Good News from the first day until now.
6. I am sure of this very thing—that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the Day of Messiah Yeshua.
7. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart—for you all are partakers of grace with me, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News.
8. For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the affection of Messiah Yeshua.
9. Now this I pray, that your love might overflow still more and more in knowledge and depth of discernment,
10. in order to approve what is excellent—so that in the Day of Messiah you may be sincere and blameless,
11. filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Yeshua the Messiah, to the glory and praise of God.
12. Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in the advancement of the Good News.