5. for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;
6. being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
7. It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
8. For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
9. This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
10. so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;
11. being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
12. Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News;
13. so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;
14. and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.
15. Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.