God is my witness how I yearn for you all in the tenderness of Christ Jesus.

And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

So I hope to send him, as soon as ever I see how it will go with me;

Not that I speak as if I were in want, for at least have learned how to be content, whatever happens.

I know how to live humbly, and I also know how to bear prosperity. In every place and under all circumstances I have been initiated into the secret of fulness and of hunger, of prosperity and of want.