3 When I arrive, I will send with letters those you recommend to carry your gracious gift to Jerusalem.
4 If it is suitable for me to go as well, they can travel with me.
5 I will come to you after I pass through Macedonia — for I will be traveling through Macedonia —
6 and perhaps I will remain with you or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I go.
7 I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.
8 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
9 because a wide door for effective ministry has opened for me — yet many oppose me.