3 When I arrive, I will send whomever you approve to take your gift to Jerusalem. I will send them with letters of introduction,
4 and if it seems good for me to go also, they will go along with me.
5 I plan to go through Macedonia, so I will come to you after I go through there.
6 Perhaps I will stay with you for a time or even all winter. Then you can help me on my trip, wherever I go.
7 I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to stay a longer time with you if the Lord allows it.
8 But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,
9 because a good opportunity for a great and growing work has been given to me now. And there are many people working against me.