9 This is my prayer for you: that your love will grow more and more; that you will have knowledge and understanding with your love;
10 that you will see the difference between what is important and what is not and choose what is important; that you will be pure and blameless for the coming of Christ;
11 that your life will be full of the many good works that are produced by Jesus Christ to bring glory and praise to God.
12 Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that all that has happened to me has helped to spread the Good News.
13 All the Roman guards and all the others here know that I am in prison for serving Christ.
14 My being in prison has caused most of the believers to put their trust in the Lord and to show more courage in telling people God’s message.
15 Some people are telling the message about Christ because they are jealous and bitter. Others do it because they want to help.