³ I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

⁴ always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,

⁵ for your contribution to the good news from the first day till now,

⁶ having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform [it] till a day of Jesus Christ,

⁷ according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and [in] the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

⁹ and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

¹⁰ for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

¹¹ being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that [is] through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

³ I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

⁴ always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,

⁵ for your contribution to the good news from the first day till now,

⁶ having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform [it] till a day of Jesus Christ,

⁷ according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and [in] the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

⁸ For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

⁹ and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

¹⁰ for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

¹¹ being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that [is] through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.