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always, in every supplication of mine for you all, with joy making the supplication,
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for your contribution to the good news from the first day till now,
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having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform [it] till a day of Jesus Christ,
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according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and [in] the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.
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For God is my witness, how I long for you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ,