making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you.
but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted unto you.
because we would fain have come unto you, I Paul once and again; and Satan hindered us.
And I exhort you the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Now after these things were ended, Paul purposed 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.
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.
And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,