This is the communion of the saints we profess. Our trials for the gospel draw us close to Christ and to others who have suffered for the truth. F. Paul is so confident of what he is saying that he calls on God as his co-witness. I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ. There is something enormously intimate about those who have come to know the Lord through your work.
Faithfulness leads on to more faithfulness.
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The blessings are to enable an even better testimony until the day when all things will be revealed in reality to all people. C. Righteousness bears valuable fruit over time. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness , which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.