always when offering any prayer on behalf of you all, finding a joy in offering it.

And I am justified in having this confidence about you all, because, both during my imprisonment and when I stand up in defence of the Good News or to confirm its truth, I have you in my heart, sharers as you all are in the same grace as myself.

I am therefore all the more eager to send him, in the hope that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have the less sorrow.

And you men and women of Philippi also know that at the first preaching of the Good News, when I had left Macedonia, no other Church except yourselves held communication with me about giving and receiving;