Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
Many thoughts are in a man’s heart, But it is the counsel of Yahweh that will stand.
Who is there who speaks and it happens, Unless the Lord has commanded it?
but taking leave of them and saying, “I will return to you again if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.
always in my prayers earnestly asking, if perhaps now at last by the will of God I may succeed in coming to you.
so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find rest in your company.
For I do not wish to see you now just in passing, for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall know, not the words of those who are puffed up but their power.
And this we will do, if God permits.
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.