⁹ For a wide door of opportunity for effectual [service] has opened to me [there, a great and promising one], and [there are] many adversaries.

¹⁰ When Timothy arrives, see to it that [you put him at ease, so that] he may be fearless among you, for he is [devotedly] doing the Lord’s work, just as I am.

¹¹ So [see to it that] no one despises him or treats him as if he were of no account or slights him. But send him off [cordially, speed him on his way] in peace, that he may come to me, for I am expecting him [to come along] with the other brethren.