For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
Parallel translations
- KJV For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
- BSB For I do not want to see you now only in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
- NKJV For I do not wish to see you now on the way; but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.
- NASB For I do not want to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.
- NLT This time I don’t want to make just a short visit and then go right on. I want to come and stay awhile, if the Lord will let me.
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Cross-references · 7
- Acts 18:21but taking his leave of them, and saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.
- 1 Cor 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.
- Jas 4:15For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
- Rom 1:10requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
- Jer 10:23Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
- 2 Cor 1:15In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit;
- Prov 19:21There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.
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