This {is} the third {time} I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.

Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater {is} he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. {condemnation: or, judgment}

And this will we do, if God permit.

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; {benefit: or, grace}

Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.

And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,

For that ye {ought} to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; {benefit: or, grace}

For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

For that ye {ought} to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come. {condemnation: or, judgment}

Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.

I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

And this will we do, if God permit.

That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by {your} letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. {liberality: Gr. gift}

That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.

Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such {will we be} also in deed when we are present.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. {I stand...: or, I am perplexed for you}