^{6 Ref} being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

^{7 Ref} even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

^{8 Ref} For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

^{9 Ref} And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

^{10 Ref} so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

^{11 Ref} being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.