17 Your faith makes you offer your lives as a sacrifice in serving God. Perhaps I will have to offer my own blood with your sacrifice. But if that happens, I will be happy and full of joy with all of you.
18 You also should be happy and full of joy with me.
19 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon. I will be happy to learn how you are.
20 I have no other person like Timothy. He truly cares for you.
21 Other people are interested only in their own lives. They are not interested in the work of Christ Jesus.
22 You know the kind of person Timothy is. You know that he has served with me in telling the Good News, as a son serves his father.
23 I plan to send him to you quickly when I know what will happen to me.