22. My work has always kept me from coming to see you.
23. Now there is nothing left for me to do in this part of the world, and for years I have wanted to visit you.
24. So I plan to stop off on my way to Spain. Then after a short, but refreshing, stay with you, I hope you will quickly send me on.
25-26. I am now on my way to Jerusalem to deliver the money that the Lord's followers in Macedonia and Achaia collected for God's needy people.
27. This is something they really wanted to do. But sharing their money with the Jews was also like paying back a debt, because the Jews had already shared their spiritual blessings with the Gentiles.
28. After I have safely delivered this money, I will visit you and then go on to Spain.
29. And when I do arrive in Rome, I know it will be with the full blessings of Christ.