5. I plan to go through Macedonia. So I will come to you after I go through there.
6. Maybe I will stay with you for a time. I might even stay all winter. Then you can help me on my trip, wherever I go.
7. I do not want to come to see you now, because I would have to leave to go other places. I hope to stay a longer time with you if the Lord allows it.
8. But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost.
9. I will stay, because a good opportunity for a great and growing work has been given to me now. And there are many people working against me.