For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel, not with {clever speech}, lest the cross of Christ be emptied.

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

And whenever I arrive, whomever you approve by letters, I will send these to take your gift to Jerusalem.

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.

Therefore do not let anyone disdain him, but send him [on his way] in peace in order that he may come to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.