Paul Commends Timothy

If the Lord Jesus is willing, I hope to send Timothy to you soon for a visit. Then he can cheer me up by telling me how you
are getting along. I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare. All the others care only for
themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ. But you know how Timothy has proved himself. Like a son with his
father, he has served with me in preaching the Good News. I hope to send him to you just as soon as I find out what is going
to happen to me here. And I have confidence from the Lord that I myself will come to see you soon.