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 do not want to come to see you now, because I would have to leave to go other places. I hope to stay a longer time with you if the Lord allows it.
8. But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost.
9. I will stay, because a good opportunity for a great and growing work has been given to me now. And there are many people working against me.
10. Timothy might come to you. Try to make him feel comfortable with you. He is working for the Lord just as I am.