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- For this reason I have often been prevented from coming to you;
- but now, with no further place for me in these regions, and since I have had for many years a longing to come to you
- whenever I go to Spain--for I hope to see you in passing, and to be helped on my way there by you, when I have first enjoyed your company for a while--
- but now, I am going to Jerusalem serving the saints.
- For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
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- For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
- But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;
- Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
- But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
- For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
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- Yes, they were pleased to do so, and they are indebted to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material things.
- Therefore, when I have finished this, and have put my seal on this fruit of theirs, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
- I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
- Now I urge you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,
- that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may prove acceptable to the saints;
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- It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
- When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
- And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
- Now 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;
- That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
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- so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find refreshing rest in your company.
- Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
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- That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.
- Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
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