50:001:006 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
50:001:007 Even as it is meet for me to think this 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 of my grace.
50:001:008 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
50:001:009 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
50:001:010 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.
50:001:011 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
50:001:012 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
50:001:013 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
50:001:014 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
50:001:015 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: