Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
Parallel translations
- WEB requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.
- BSB in my prayers at all times, asking that now at last by God’s will I may succeed in coming to you.
- NKJV making request if, by some means, now at last I may find a way in the will of God to come to you.
- NASB always in my prayers requesting if perhaps now, at last by the will of God, I will succeed in coming to you.
- NLT One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to see you.
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Quick answer
Paul prays that God's will might at last open the way for him to visit Rome. He submits his travel plans to God's sovereign will.
Overview
Paul's longing to visit Rome is real, yet he qualifies it with 'by the will of God.' This reflects a posture of submission to God's providence over his plans (compare James 4:15). It also sets up the practical occasion of the letter, written in part because Paul could not yet come in person.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Rom 15:30–32Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
- Acts 18:21But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
- Phlm 1:22But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
- Jas 4:15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
- 1 Th 3:10–11Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
- 1 Th 2:18Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
- Phil 4:6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
- Rom 15:22–24For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
- Acts 19:21After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
- Heb 13:19But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
- 1 Cor 4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
- Acts 21:14And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.
- Acts 27:1–28And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus’ band.
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