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;