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

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

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

³ And this will we do, if God permit.

³⁷ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

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

³² that I may come unto you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find rest.

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.

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.

²⁵ And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:

²⁶ but if he say thus, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.