Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
22 And so I have been prevented many times from coming to you.
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This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
23 But now that I have finished my work in these regions and since I have been wanting for so many years to come to see you,
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But now that there is no more place for me to work in these regions, and since I have been longing for many years to visit you,
24 I hope to do so now. I would like to see you on my way to Spain, and be helped by you to go there, after I have enjoyed visiting you for a while.
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I plan to do so when I go to Spain. I hope to see you while passing through and to have you assist me on my journey there, after I have enjoyed your company for a while.
25 Right now, however, I am going to Jerusalem in the service of God's people there.
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Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s people there.
26 For the churches in Macedonia and Achaia have freely decided to give an offering to help the poor among God's people in Jerusalem.
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For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem.
27 That decision was their own; but, as a matter of fact, they have an obligation to help them. Since the Jews shared their spiritual blessings with the Gentiles, the Gentiles ought to use their material blessings to help the Jews.
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They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews’ spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings.
28 When I have finished this task and have turned over to them all the money that has been raised for them, I shall leave for Spain and visit you on my way there.
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So after I have completed this task and have made sure that they have received this contribution, I will go to Spain and visit you on the way.
29 When I come to you, I know that I shall come with a full measure of the blessing of Christ.
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I know that when I come to you, I will come in the full measure of the blessing of Christ.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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