002:016 holding out to them a Message of Life. It will then be my glory
on the day of Christ that I did not run my race in vain nor
toil in vain.
002:017 Nay, even if my life is to be poured as a libation upon
the sacrificial offering of your faith, I rejoice, and I
congratulate you all.
002:018 And I bid you also share my gladness, and congratulate me.
002:019 But, if the Lord permits it, I hope before long to send Timothy to you, that I, in turn, may be cheered by getting news of you.
002:020 For I have no one likeminded with him, who will cherish
a genuine care for you.
002:021 Everybody concerns himself about his own interests, not about
those of Jesus Christ.
002:022 But you know Timothy's approved worth—how, like a child working with his father, he has served with me in furtherance of the Good News.
002:023 So it is he that I hope to send as soon as ever I see how things
go with me;
002:024 but trusting, as I do, in the Lord, I believe that I shall
myself also come to you before long.
002:025 Yet I deem it important to send Epaphroditus to you now— he is my brother and comrade both in labour and in arms, and is your messenger who has ministered to my needs.