If Timothy comes your way, be sure to make him feel welcome among you, because he is working for the Lord, just as I am.

After these things had happened, Paul made up his mind to travel through Macedonia and Achaia and go on to Jerusalem. "After I go there," he said, "I must also see Rome."

So he sent Timothy and Erastus, two of his helpers, to Macedonia, while he spent more time in the province of Asia.

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.

while we sent Timothy, our brother who works with us for God in preaching the Good News about Christ. We sent him to strengthen you and help your faith,

so that none of you should turn back because of these persecutions. You yourselves know that such persecutions are part of God's will for us.

For even if you have ten thousand guardians in your Christian life, you have only one father. For in your life in union with Christ Jesus I have become your father by bringing the Good News to you.

To Timothy, my true son in the faith: May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.

To Timothy, my dear son: May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.

The one thing required of such servants is that they be faithful to their master.

Now, concerning what you wrote about unmarried people: I do not have a command from the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord's mercy is worthy of trust.

It is different when I speak with my servant Moses; I have put him in charge of all my people Israel.

Unreliable messengers cause trouble, but those who can be trusted bring peace.

"Who, then, is a faithful and wise servant? It is the one that his master has placed in charge of the other servants to give them their food at the proper time.

'Well done, you good and faithful servant!' said his master. 'You have been faithful in managing small amounts, so I will put you in charge of large amounts. Come on in and share my happiness!'

'Well done, you good and faithful servant!' said his master. 'You have been faithful in managing small amounts, so I will put you in charge of large amounts. Come on in and share my happiness!'

Tychicus, our dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord's work, will give you all the news about me, so that you may know how I am getting along.

You learned of God's grace from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is Christ's faithful worker on our behalf.

With him goes Onesimus, that dear and faithful friend, who belongs to your group. They will tell you everything that is happening here.

Take the teachings that you heard me proclaim in the presence of many witnesses, and entrust them to reliable people, who will be able to teach others also.

Don't be afraid of anything you are about to suffer. Listen! The Devil will put you to the test by having some of you thrown into prison, and your troubles will last ten days. Be faithful to me, even if it means death, and I will give you life as your prize of victory.

I know where you live, there where Satan has his throne. You are true to me, and you did not abandon your faith in me even during the time when Antipas, my faithful witness, was killed there where Satan lives.

Each of you should go on living according to the Lord's gift to you, and as you were when God called you. This is the rule I teach in all the churches.

I praise you because you always remember me and follow the teachings that I have handed on to you.

But if anyone wants to argue about it, all I have to say is that neither we nor the churches of God have any other custom in worship.

Now, concerning what you wrote about the money to be raised to help God's people in Judea. You must do what I told the churches in Galatia to do.

But you have followed my teaching, my conduct, and my purpose in life; you have observed my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

because God does not want us to be in disorder but in harmony and peace. As in all the churches of God's people,