6 being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will perfect [it] until the day of Jesus Christ

7 Even as it is right for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are joint partakers of my grace.

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