7 It is right that I should think this way about all of you, because I hold you in my heart, you who are all partners with me in grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.

8 For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. [AE]

9 And this is my prayer: that your love may increase ever more and more in knowledge and every kind of perception, [AF]