Plans for Travel
5jI will visit you after passing through kMacedonia, for lI intend to pass through Macedonia, 6and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may mhelp me on my journey, wherever I go. 7For I do not want to see you now njust in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, oif the Lord permits. 8But I will stay in Ephesus until pPentecost, 9for qa wide door for effective work has opened to me, and rthere are many adversaries.
10sWhen Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for the is doing uthe work of the Lord, as I am. 11So vlet no one despise him. wHelp him on his way xin peace, that he may return to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.
Final Instructions
12Now concerning your brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will2 to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.
Footnotes
- 2 16:12 Or God's will for him
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Final Exhortations and Greetings 1 Corinthians 16:1–24 Series • ID: 14608Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The ESV text may not be quoted in any publication made available to the public by a Creative Commons license. The ESV may not be translated in whole or in part into any other language.