I don’t want to see you now just in passing, since I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.
but he said farewell and added, ‘I’ll come back to you again, if God wills.’ Then he set sail from Ephesus.
Instead, you should say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk, but the power of those who are arrogant.
Because of this confidence, I planned to come to you first, so that you could have a second benefit,
always asking in my prayers that if it is somehow in God’s will, I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
I know, Lord, that a person’s way of life is not his own; no one who walks determines his own steps.
Many plans are in a person’s heart, but the Lord’s decree will prevail.
Jesus answered him, ‘Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfil all righteousness.’ Then John allowed him to be baptised.