⁸ For God is a witness to me, how I covet all you [how I covet you all] in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

⁹ And this thing I pray, that your charity be plenteous more and more in knowing [that your charity be plenteous more and more in science, or knowing], and in all wit;

¹⁰ that ye approve the better things [that ye prove the better things], that ye be clean and without offence in the day of Christ;