¹⁶ Please follow their instructions and do everything you can to help them as well as all others like them who work hard at your side with such real devotion. ¹⁷ I am so glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have arrived here for a visit. They have been making up for the help you aren’t here to give me. ¹⁸ They have cheered me greatly and have been a wonderful encouragement to me, as I am sure they were to you, too. I hope you properly appreciate the work of such men as these.