So you should say, “If the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that.”
People can make all kinds of plans, but only the Lord’s plan will happen.
Nobody can speak and have it happen unless the Lord commands it.
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.
every time I pray. I pray that I will be allowed to come to you, and this will happen if God wants it.
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,
And we will go on to grown-up teaching if God allows.
But now you are proud and you brag. All of this bragging is wrong.