instead of your saying, ‘If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;’
Many [are] the purposes in a man's heart, And the counsel of Jehovah it standeth.
Who [is] this — he hath said, and it is, [And] the Lord hath not commanded [it]?
but took leave of them, saying, ‘It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you — God willing.’ And he sailed from Ephesus,
always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,
that in joy I may come unto you, through the will of God, and may be refreshed with you,
for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;
but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;
and this we will do, if God may permit,
and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;