Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
And this we will do if God permits.
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus.
always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.
Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place. But if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.”
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