6. Being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
7. Even as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; since as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of my grace.
8. For God is my witness, how greatly I long after you all in the affections of Jesus Christ.
9. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10. That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ;
11. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.