17. Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.
18. In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
19. But I hope in the Lord Yeshua to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.
20. For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.
21. For they all seek their own, not the things of Yeshua the Messiah.
22. But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
23. Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.
24. But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
25. But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your emissary and servant of my need;