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

7 even as it is righteous for me to think this of you all, because you have me in your heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you are all partakers of my grace.

8 For God is my witness how greatly I long after you all in [the] bowels of Jesus Christ.