1 Finally, as to the fund — I have given instructions to the churches in Galatia about this collection, which is to be used by the church at Jerusalem, and I repeat the same instructions to you.
2 I do not wish the money to be collected when I come, but begin now, every Sabbath, to put by something as each is able to afford it.
3 I want you after that to appoint certain members to travel with the amount collected to Jerusalem.
4 If the sum is a large one, I shall accompany this mission myself.
5-7 For I intend to be with you shortly. I hope possibly to winter with you, at any rate, if the Lord permit, to be with you for a considerable time, not merely to visit you, en route for somewhere else. And I hope that some of you will accompany me when I leave. I shall come by way of Macedonia.