3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God, always making mention of you in my prayers,
5 because I hear about your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.
6 I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing that is in us for Christ.
7 For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
8 Therefore, although I have great confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,
9 instead I appeal to you because of love, since I am such a one as Paul, now an old man and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.