¹² Having much to say to you, it is not my purpose to put it all down with paper and ink: but I am hoping to come to you, and to have talk with you face to face, so that your joy may be full.

¹³ I had much to say to you, but it is not my purpose to put it all down with ink and pen:

¹⁴ But I am hoping to see you in a short time, and to have talk with you face to face.

⁴ And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

¹³ And now I come to you; and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.

²⁴ Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered, so that your hearts may be full of joy.

¹¹ I have said these things to you so that I may have joy in you and so that your joy may be complete.

²³ Our brother Timothy has been let out of prison; and if he comes here in a short time, he and I will come to you together.

¹⁹ I make this request more strongly, in the hope of coming back to you more quickly.

²² And make a room ready for me; for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be given to you.

⁴ Desiring to see you, keeping in my memory your weeping, so that I may be full of joy;

⁵ But I will come to you after I have gone through Macedonia, for that is my purpose;

⁶ But I may be with you for a time, or even for the winter, so that you may see me on my way, wherever I go.

⁷ For it is not my desire to see you now, on my way; because it is my hope to be with you for some time, if that is the Lord's pleasure.

²⁴ Whenever I go to Spain (for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company)--

¹² I have still much to say to you, but you are not strong enough for it now.

⁸ With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?