Money collected for poor believers
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📚✭Now concerning the collection for the saints, just as I gave instructions to the churches of Galatia, so you should do also. 2 📚On the first day ✭of the week each one of you should put some money aside, as God has prospered him, so that there will be no collections when I come. 3 📚✭And when I come, I will send whomever you approve by your letters, to take your gift to Jerusalem. 4 📚And if it is suitable that I go also, they will go with me.Paul’s requests
5 📚Now I will come to you when I pass through Macedonia; for I will pass through Macedonia✭. 6 📚And it may be that I will stay, yes, and spend the winter with you, that you may send me on my journey✭, wherever I go. 7 📚For I do not want to see you now on the way, but I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits. 8 📚But I will remain at Ephesus until Pentecost. 9 📚For a great door✭ and an effective one has opened to me, and there are many opponents.
10 📚Now if Timothy✭ comes, see that he can be with you without fear✭, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do. 11 📚Therefore no one should look down on him. But send him on his journey in peace, so he can come to me. For I am expecting him with the brethren.
12 📚Concerning our brother Apollos✭, I strongly urged him to come to you with the brethren, but he was not at all willing to come at this time. But he will come when he has a convenient time. 13 📚Watch✭, stand firm✭ in the faith, be courageous, be strong✭. 14 📚All you do should be done with love✭.
15 📚✭I urge you, brethren (you know the household of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the ministry of the saints)✭, 16 📚✭to submit yourselves to such persons, and to everyone who works and labours with us. 17 📚I am glad about the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, for they have supplied what was lacking on your part✭. 18 📚✭For they have refreshed my spirit, and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.
Final remarks
19 📚✭The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla✭ greet you warmly in the Lord, together with the church that is in their house✭. 20 📚All the brethren greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss✭.
21 📚✭I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.
22 📚✭If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, O Lord✭.
23 📚The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 📚✭My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.