22. This [ambition] is the reason why I have so frequently been hindered from coming to visit you.
23. But now since I have no further opportunity for work in these regions, and since I have longed for enough years to come to you,
24. I hope to see you in passing [through Rome] as I go [on my intended trip] to Spain, and to be aided on my journey there by you, after I have enjoyed your company for a little while.
25. For the present, however, I am going to Jerusalem to bring aid (relief) for the saints (God's people there).
26. For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make some contribution for the poor among the saints of Jerusalem.
27. They were pleased to do it; and surely they are in debt to them, for if these Gentiles have come to share in their [the Jerusalem Jews'] spiritual blessings, then they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.