2. On the first day of the week each of you should set aside and save whatever one can afford, so that collections will not be going on when I come.
3. And when I arrive, I shall send those whom you have approved with letters of recommendation to take your gracious gift to Jerusalem.
4. If it seems fitting that I should go also, they will go with me.
5. I shall come to you after I pass through Macedonia (for I am going to pass through Macedonia),
6. and perhaps I shall stay or even spend the winter with you, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go.
7. For I do not wish to see you now just in passing, but I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
8. I shall stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
9. because a door has opened for me wide and productive for work, but there are many opponents.
10. If Timothy comes, see that he is without fear in your company, for he is doing the work of the Lord just as I am.