"I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear [them] now.

I had many things to write, but I do not wish to write to you with pen and ink;

whenever I journey to Spain, I shall come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your [company] for a while.

Now I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia (for I am passing through Macedonia).

For I do not wish to see you now on the way; but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

But, meanwhile, also prepare a guest room for me, for I trust that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.

But I especially urge [you] to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

Know that [our] brother Timothy has been set free, with whom I shall see you if he comes shortly.

I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant Moses?"

"These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and [that] your joy may be full.

"Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

"But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.

greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy,

And these things we write to you that your joy may be full.