Philippians 1:8 ASV

⁶  being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

⁷  even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

⁸  For God is my witness, how I long after you all in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

⁹  And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

¹⁰  so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;