1. And concerning the collection that [is] for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye--do ye;
2. on every first [day] of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;
3. and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;
4. and if it be meet for me also to go, with me they shall go.
5. And I will come unto you, when I pass through Macedonia--for Macedonia I do pass through--
6. and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that ye may send me forward whithersoever I go,
7. for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;
8. and I will remain in Ephesus till the Pentecost,
9. for a door to me hath been opened--great and effectual--and withstanders [are] many.