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

6 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;

7 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.