16. Holding fast the Dvar HaChayyim. This is so that I will have reason for glorying on the Yom HaMoshiach [1:6,10], that I neither ran nor labored L'TOHU (in vain) [YESHAYAH 49:4; 65:23].
17. And, indeed, if my neshamah is to be poured out as a nesekh (libation wine) offering upon the korban (sacrifice) of the avodas kodesh (kohen's service, ministry) of your emunah, I have simcha, rejoicing together with you all [cf. Ro 15:16; 2Ti 4:6].
18. And in the same way also you have simcha, rejoicing together with me [l:4,18;1:25;2:2,17].
19. I have tikvah b'Adoneinu Yehoshua to send Timotiyos to you soon, that I also may be cheered up in the da'as of the things concerning you.
20. For I have no one likeminded who will emesdik (genuinely) care for your spiritual welfare.
21. All of them are seeking their own interests [2:4], not those of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua.
22. But of the proven mamashus (real worth) of Timotiyos you have da'as, because as a ben with his abba, Timotiyos served with me in the Besuras HaGeulah.
23. Therefore, I have tikvah to send him, as soon as I see how things will go with me.
24. But I have bitachon in Hashem that indeed I will come quickly.
25. But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, the Ach b'Moshiach and fellow po'el (worker) and fellow chaiyal (soldier) of mine, but your shliach and keli kodesh (minister) of my need [4:18].