And we will go on to grown-up teaching if God allows.
But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you again if God wants me to.” And so he sailed away from Ephesus.
Then, if God wants me to, I will come to you with joy, and together you and I will have a time of rest.
I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to stay a longer time with you if the Lord allows it.
But I will come to you very soon if the Lord wishes. Then I will know what the proud ones do, not what they say,
Some people cannot be brought back again to a changed life. They were once in God’s light, and enjoyed heaven’s gift, and shared in the Holy Spirit.
So you should say, “If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that.”
