Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit which is increasing to your account.

which has come to you, just as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit and growing, just as also among you, from the day which you heard and fully knew the grace of God in truth;

whenever I travel to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope [while] traveling through to see you, and to be sent forward there by you, if I may be filled in part [from] you first.

[There are] many thoughts in a man's heart, but the counsel of the Lord abides forever.

Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? The Lord has not commanded it.

Come now, you who say, "Today and tomorrow let us travel to this city, and let us spend a year there, and let us trade and make a profit"--

Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."