16. as you offer them the message of life. If you do so, I shall have reason to be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because it will show that all my effort and work have not been wasted.
17. Perhaps my life's blood is to be poured out like an offering on the sacrifice that your faith offers to God. If that is so, I am glad and share my joy with you all.
18. In the same way, you too must be glad and share your joy with me.
19. If it is the Lord's will, I hope that I will be able to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be encouraged by news about you.
20. He is the only one who shares my feelings and who really cares about you.
21. All the others are concerned only with their own affairs, not with the cause of Jesus Christ.
22. And you yourselves know how he has proved his worth, how he and I, like a son and his father, have worked together for the sake of the gospel.
23. So I hope to send him to you as soon as I know how things are going to turn out for me.