But I want you to know, brothers, that the things [which happened] to me have come about for the advancement of the gospel,

Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you all things about me.

And Sopater, a Berean, was accompanying him to Asia--also Aristarchus of the Thessalonians, and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus, [the] Asians.

And Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

Whenever I shall send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all the things [happening] here.

no longer as a slave but more than a slave--a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation--just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

Because of this I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

just as also you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

Instructing the brothers in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

By Silvanus the faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying this to be [the] true grace of God in which you stand.