⁷ It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you ^(A)in my heart, for you are all ^(B)partakers with me of grace,^[a] both ^(C)in my imprisonment and in ^(D)the defense and confirmation of the gospel. ⁸ For ^(E)God is my witness, ^(F)how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. ⁹ And it is my prayer that ^(G)your love may abound more and more, ^(H)with knowledge and all discernment, ¹⁰ so that you may approve what is excellent, ^(I)and so be pure and blameless ^(J)for the day of Christ, ¹¹ filled ^(K)with the fruit of righteousness that comes ^(L)through Jesus Christ, ^(M)to the glory and praise of God.