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Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:

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but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,

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whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)--

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but now, I [say], I go unto Jerusalem, ministering unto the saints.

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For it hath been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints that are at Jerusalem.

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Yea, it hath been their good pleasure and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it [to them] also to minister unto them in carnal things.

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When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.

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And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

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Now I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me

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that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judaea, and [that] my ministration which [I have] for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints

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that I may come unto you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find rest.

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Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.