3I give thanks to my God on all the remembrance of you,
4always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,
5for your contribution to the good news from the first day until now,
6having been confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you, will complete [it] until [the] day of Jesus Christ,
7according 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 defense and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.
8For God is my witness, how I long for you all with [the] yearnings of Jesus Christ,
9and this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge, and all discernment,