1 Corinthians 16:7

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I don’t want to come see you now, because I would have to leave to go to other places. I hope to stay a longer time with you if the Lord allows it.

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People get a lot of ideas, but only the Lord’s plan will happen.

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Jesus answered, “Let it be this way for now. We should do all things that are right.” So John agreed to baptize {\cf2\super [45]} Jesus.

Paul left them and said, “I will come back to you again if God wants me to.” And so Paul sailed away from Ephesus.

But I will come to you very soon. I will come, if the Lord wants me to. Then I will see what these boasters can do, not what they can say.

I was very sure of all this. That is why I made plans to visit you first. Then you could be blessed twice.

So you should say, “If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that.”