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.

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

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.

³ This will we do, if God permits.

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

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

¹⁶ For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing.

²⁰ For I have no one else like-minded, who will truly care about you.

²¹ For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

²² But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Gospel.

²³ Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

²⁴ But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.

¹¹ Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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.

¹⁴ When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, "The Lord's will be done."

²¹ Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, "After I have been there, I must also see Rome."

²⁹ that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."

⁶¹ Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those who are at my house."

³⁹ He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."

¹ Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to Yahweh your God; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.