Prayer for the Church

1:3 I thank my God every time I remember you.6 1:4 I always pray with joy in my every prayer for all of you 1:5 because of your participation7 in the gospel from the first day until now.8 1:6 For I am sure of this very thing,9 that the one10 who began a good work in11 you will perfect it12 until the day of Christ Jesus. 1:7 For13 it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart,14 since both in my imprisonment15 and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you became partners in God’s grace16 together with me. 1:8 For God is my witness that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. 1:9 And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight 1:10 so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ, 1:11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.