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22 This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.
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This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
23 But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to 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 see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be sped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a little.
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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 At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem with aid for the saints.
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Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem in the service of the Lord’s people there.
26 For Macedo'nia and Acha'ia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at 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 they were pleased to do it, and indeed they are in debt to them, for if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
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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 therefore I have completed this, and have delivered to them what has been raised, I shall go on by way of you to Spain;
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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 and I know that when I come to you I shall come in the fulness 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.
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