When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected, I will leave for Spain by way of you.
I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while.
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.
which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
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