Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

I Thank God For Your Partnership With Me In The Gospel

³ I am giving-thanks to my God upon every remembrance of you, ⁴ always in my every petition for you all making the petition with joy ⁵ on-the-basis-of your partnership^[a] for the good-news from the first day until the present, ⁶ being confident-of this very thing: that the One having begun a good work in you will perfect^[b] it until the day of Christ— ⁷ just as it is right for me to think this about you all because of my having you^[c] in my heart, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation^[d] of the good-news, you all being my co-partners^[e] of grace. ⁸ For God is my witness how I am yearning-for you all with the deep-feelings^[f] of Christ Jesus.

May Your Love Abound Still More In Knowledge Leading To Holiness

⁹ And I am praying this: that your love may be abounding still more and more in knowledge and all perception^{[g] 10} so that you may be approving the things mattering^[h], in-order-that^[i] you might be pure and blameless^[j] for^[k] the day of Christ, ¹¹ having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.

Things Are Turning Out For The Good of The Gospel

¹² Now I want you to know, brothers, that the things concerning me have come rather for the advancement of the good-news—

The Brothers Are More Fearlessly Speaking The Word

¹³ ... so that my imprisonment in^[l] Christ became visible^[m] in the whole Praetorium^[n] and to all the rest, ¹⁴ and so that the majority of the brothers, being confident^[o] in the Lord because-of my imprisonment, are more daring to fearlessly speak the word.