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.
8 At present I remain at Ephesus until Pentecost.
9 The door is open here, wide open, and much work is being done, but the opposition is great.
10-11 If Timothy comes to you, let him not feel that he is unwelcome, be generous and hospitable, for it is the Lord's work that both he and I together pursue; and send him again to me with your kind thoughts, for I need him here.
12 I have told Apollos again and again to go to you, and to take with him the brethren who usually accompany him; but I have never found him willing, because the opportunity has always been wanting hitherto, but he will come, when he is able.
13 Be watchful and alert, stand, — for you can stand, — in the faith alone, without our help; be brave, and master yourselves.