8 For God is my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
9 And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
10 so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,
11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
12 Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have happened instead for the progress of the gospel,
13 so that my imprisonment in Christ has become known in the whole praetorium and to all the rest,
14 and most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, dare even more to speak the word without fear.