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19 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.
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I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you.
20 I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare.
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I have no one else like him, who will show genuine concern for your welfare.
21 All the others care only for themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ.
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For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
22 But you know how Timothy has proved himself. Like a son with his father, he has served with me in preaching the Good News.
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But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel.
23 I hope to send him to you just as soon as I find out what is going to happen to me here.
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I hope, therefore, to send him as soon as I see how things go with me.
24 And I have confidence from the Lord that I myself will come to see you soon.
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And I am confident in the Lord that I myself will come soon.
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