For I do not wish to see you now on the way; but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
but took leave of them, saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem; but I will return again to you, God willing.” And he sailed from Ephesus.
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
And in this confidence I intended to come to you before, that you might have a second benefit—
making request if, by some means, now at last I may find a way in the will of God to come to you.
O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.
There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand.
But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.