3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you
4 always in every prayer of mine for you all, making request with joy,
5 for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,
6 being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perfect 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; inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are joint partakers of my grace.
8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
9 And this I pray that your charity may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all perception,