always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.
But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus.
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you.
as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith? Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you,
because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us.
I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you. But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to 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.
Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”
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.
And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, “Let the will of the Lord be done.”
And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius. And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for. And putting out to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.
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