⁷ For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

²¹ but taking his leave of them, and saying, "I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus.

¹⁹ But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

²¹ There are many plans in a man's heart, But Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

²³ Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

¹⁰ requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

¹⁵ In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;

¹⁵ For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."