^7 [a]For ^(A)it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I ^(B)have you in my heart, since both in my ^[b](C)imprisonment and in the ^(D)defense and confirmation of the ^(E)gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me.

²² But you know ^(A)of his proven worth, that ^(B)he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel ^(C)like a child serving his father.

³ Indeed, true companion, I ask you also to help these women who have shared my struggle in the cause of the gospel, together with Clement also and the rest of my ^(A)fellow workers, whose ^(B)names are in the book of life.

¹⁵ You yourselves also know, Philippians, that at the ^[a](A)first preaching of the gospel, after I left ^(B)Macedonia, no church ^(C)shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you alone;