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Acts 18:21

James Moffatt - New Testament

he said goodbye to them, telling them, "I will come back to you, if it is the will of God." Then, sailing from Ephesus,

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I will come to you before long, if the Lord wills, and then I will find out from these puffed up creatures not what their talk but what their power amounts to.

You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

With God's permission, we will take this step.

Then, by God's will, I shall gladly come to you and rest beside you.

asking if I may at last be sped upon my way to you by God's will.

This was because Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, to avoid any loss of time in Asia; he wanted to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

For it is better to suffer for doing right (if that should be the will of God) than for doing wrong.

Now brothers, goodbye; mend your ways, listen to what I have told you, live in harmony, keep the peace; then the God of love and peace will be with you.

I do not care about seeing you at this moment merely in the by-going; my hope is to stay among you for some time, with the Lord's permission.

As he would not be persuaded, we acquiesced, saying, "The will of the Lord be done."

After these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to travel through Macedonia and Achaia on his way to Jerusalem. "After I get there," he said, "I must also visit Rome."

abstain from food that has been offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual vice. Keep clear of all this and you will prosper. Goodbye."

Another man also said to him, "I will follow you, Lord. But let me first say good-bye to my people at home."

Then he went forward a little and fell on his face praying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

and after saying goodbye to them he went up the hill to pray.

When they reached Ephesus, Paul left them there. He went to the synagogue and argued with the Jews,

who asked him to stay for a while. But he would not consent;

There came to Ephesus a Jew called Apollos, who was a native of Alexandria, a man of culture, strong in his knowledge of the scriptures.

It was when Apollos was in Corinth that Paul, after passing through the inland districts, came down to Ephesus. There he found some disciples,

This came to the ears of all the inhabitants of Ephesus, Jews as well as Greeks; awe fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

(They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian along with him in the city, and they supposed Paul had taken him inside the temple.)

What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!

I am staying on for the present at Ephesus till Pentecost,

PAUL, by the will of God an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are faithful in Jesus Christ:

"Write your vision in a book, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and Smyrna and Pergamum and Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Laodicea."

To the angel of the church at Ephesus write thus: — These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who moves among the seven golden lampstands:




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