Chapter 16

  And concerning the collection that [is] for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye -- do ye;  

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  on every first [day] of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;  

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  and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;  

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  and if it be meet for me also to go, with me they shall go.  

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  And I will come unto you, when I pass through Macedonia -- for Macedonia I do pass through --  

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  and with you, it may be, I will abide, or even winter, that ye may send me forward whithersoever I go,  

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  for I do not wish to see you now in the passing, but I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord may permit;  

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  and I will remain in Ephesus till the Pentecost,  

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  for a door to me hath been opened -- great and effectual -- and withstanders [are] many.  

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  And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,  

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  no one, then, may despise him; and send ye him forward in peace, that he may come to me, for I expect him with the brethren;  

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  and concerning Apollos our brother, much I did entreat him that he may come unto you with the brethren, and it was not at all [his] will that he may come now, and he will come when he may find convenient.  

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  Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;  

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  let all your things be done in love.  

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  And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves --  

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  that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with [us] and labouring;  

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  and I rejoice over the presence of Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, because the lack of you did these fill up;  

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  for they did refresh my spirit and yours; acknowledge ye, therefore, those who [are] such.  

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  Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;  

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  salute you do all the brethren; salute ye one another in an holy kiss.  

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  The salutation of [me] Paul with my hand;  

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  if any one doth not love the Lord Jesus Christ -- let him be anathema! The Lord hath come!  

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  The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [is] with you;  

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  my love [is] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.  

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