1. Now, about the collection of money for God’s people: Do the same as I told the Galatian churches to do.
2. On the first day of every week, each of you should take some of your money and put it in a special place. Save up as much as you can from what you are blessed with. Then you will not have to gather it all after I come.
3. When I arrive, I will send some men to take your gift to Jerusalem. These will be the ones you all agree should go. I will send them with letters of introduction.
4. If it seems good for me to go too, we can all travel together.
5. I plan to go through Macedonia, so I will come to you after that.
6. Maybe I will stay with you for a time. I might even stay all winter. Then you can help me on my trip, wherever I go.
7. I don’t want to come see you now, because I would have to leave to go to other places. I hope to stay a longer time with you, if the Lord allows it.
8. But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost.