^{8 Ref} For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,

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

^{10 Ref} for your proving the things that differ, that ye may be pure and offenceless -- to a day of Christ,

^{11 Ref} being filled with the fruit of righteousness, that `is' through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.