For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
There are many plans in a man's heart, but the LORD's counsel will prevail.
LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
But Yeshua, answering, said to him, *Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.* Then he allowed him.
but taking his leave of them, and saying, *I must by all means keep this coming feast in Yerushalayim, but I will return again to you if God wills,* he set sail from Ephesus.
requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;
For you ought to say, *If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.*