²¹ but took leave of them, saying, `It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you -- God willing.' And he sailed from Ephesus,

¹⁵ instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

¹⁹ but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;

³ and this we will do, if God may permit,

³² that in joy I may come unto you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with you,

¹⁰ always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,

¹⁶ for Paul decided to sail past Ephesus, that there may not be to him a loss of time in Asia, for he hasted, if it were possible for him, on the day of the Pentecost to be at Jerusalem.

¹⁷ for `it is' better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;

¹⁹ And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,

²⁰ for I have no one like-minded, who sincerely for the things concerning you will care,

²¹ for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,

²² and the proof of him ye know, that as a child `serveth' a father, with me he did serve in regard to the good news;

²³ him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me -- immediately;

²⁴ and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come.

¹¹ Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

⁷ for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;

¹⁴ and he not being persuaded, we were silent, saying, `The will of the Lord be done.'

²¹ And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the Spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go on to Jerusalem, saying -- `After my being there, it behoveth me also to see Rome;'

²⁹ to abstain from things offered to idols, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom; from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well; be strong!'

⁶¹ And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;'

³⁹ And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

¹ `Observe the month of Abib -- and thou hast made a passover to Jehovah thy God, for in the month of Abib hath Jehovah thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night;