and I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
I will make them and the region around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
Now after these things had been accomplished, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go through Macedonia and Achaia and then to go on to Jerusalem. He said, “After I have gone there, I must also see Rome.”
But now, with no further place for me in these regions, I desire, as I have for many years, to come to you
so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
Since I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a double favor;
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ
until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.