| 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. |
| 10. | And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I, |
| 11. | no one, then, may despise him; and send ye him forward in peace, that he may come to me, for I expect him with the brethren; |
| 12. | and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all `his' will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient. |
| 13. | Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong; |
| 14. | let all your things be done in love. |
| 15. | And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves -- |
| 16. | that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with `us' and labouring; |
| 17. | and I rejoice over the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because the lack of you did these fill up; |
| 18. | for they did refresh my spirit and yours; acknowledge ye, therefore, those who `are' such. |
| 19. | Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house; |
| 20. | salute you do all the brethren; salute ye one another in an holy kiss. |
| 21. | The salutation of `me' Paul with my hand; |
| 22. | if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be anathema! The Lord hath come! |
| 23. | The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ `is' with you; |
| 24. | my love `is' with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. |