8 God knows that I want to see you very much. I love all of you with the love of Christ Jesus.
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 good and bad and choose the good; that you will be pure and without wrong for the coming of Christ;
11 that you will be filled with the good things produced in your life by Christ to bring glory and praise to God.
12 Brothers, I want you to know that what has happened to me has helped to spread the Good News.
13 I am in prison because I am a believer in Christ. All the palace guards and everyone else knows this.
14 I am still in prison, but most of the believers feel better about it now. And so they are much braver about telling the Good News about Christ.