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I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

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Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

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For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now

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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:

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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.

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For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and [in] all judgment

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That ye may approve things that are excellent that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ

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Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.