Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

I give thanks to my God, always making mention of thee in my prayers,

that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that is in you toward Christ Jesus;

whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,

and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,