19. I want to be encouraged by news about you. So I hope the Lord Jesus will soon let me send Timothy to you.
20. I don't have anyone else who cares about you as much as he does.
21. The others think only about what interests them and not about what concerns Christ Jesus.
22. But you know what kind of person Timothy is. He has worked with me like a son in spreading the good news.
23. I hope to send him to you, as soon as I find out what is going to happen to me.
24. And I feel sure that the Lord will also let me come soon.
25. I think I ought to send my dear friend Epaphroditus back to you. He is a follower and a worker and a soldier of the Lord, just as I am. You sent him to look after me,
26. but now he is eager to see you. He is worried, because you heard he was sick.