For I will not see you now by the way, for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.
But taking his leave, and saying: I will return to you again, God willing, he departed from Ephesus.
For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while, and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.
And in this confidence I had a mind to come to you before, that you might have a second grace:
Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.
I know, O Lord, that the way of a man is not his: neither is it in a man to walk and to direct his steps.
There are many thoughts in the heart of a man: but the will of the Lord shall stand firm.
And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him.