Study Desk

I am giving thanks unto my God, on occasion of all my remembrance of you,

At all times, in every supplication of mine, in behalf of you all, with joy, my supplication, making, -

On account of your contribution unto the glad-message, from the first day until the present:

Being persuaded of this very thing - that, he who hath begun in you a good work, will perfect it, until the day of Jesus Christ;

According as it is right in me to have this regard in behalf of you all, - because ye have had me in your hearts, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad-message, all of you being, joint partakers of my favour.

For God is, my witness, how I long for you all in the tender affections of Christ Jesus.

And, this, I pray - that, your love, may be, yet more and more, pre-eminent in personal knowledge and all perception,

To the end ye may be putting to the test the things that differ, in order that ye may be incorrupt and may give no occasion of stumbling, unto the day of Christ,

Filled with that fruit of righteousness which is through Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God.