3: I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

4: Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

5: For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

6: Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

7: Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are 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 love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

10: That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.

11: Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.