⁷ For I do not wish to see you now by the way; for I hope to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

²¹ but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.

²¹ There are many devices in a man's heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.

²³ O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

¹⁰ making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.

¹⁵ And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

¹⁵ For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.