3 I give thanks to my God, with every remembrance of you,
4 always, in all my prayers, making supplication for all of you with joy,
5 because of your communion in the Gospel of Christ, from the first day even until now.
6 I am confident of this very thing: that he who has begun this good work in you will perfect it, unto the day of Christ Jesus.
7 So then, it is right for me to feel this way about all of you, because I hold you in my heart, and because, in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the Gospel, you all are partakers of my joy.
8 For God is my witness how, within the heart of Jesus Christ, I long for all of you.
9 And this I pray: that your charity may abound more and more, with knowledge and with all understanding,