3 When I arrive, I will send some men to take your gift to Jerusalem. These will be men who you all agree should go. I will send them with letters of introduction.
4 If it seems good for me to go also, these men will go along with me.
5 I plan to go through Macedonia. So I will come to you after I go through there.
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.