21But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
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For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
And this will we do, if God permit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-23)We have here Paul in motion, as we have had him at Corinth for some time at rest, but in both busy, very busy, in the service of Christ; if he sat still, if he went about, still it was to do good. Here is, I. Paul’s departure from Corinth, Acts 18:18. 1. He did not go away till some time after the trouble he met with there; from other places he had departed when the storm arose, but not from Corin…
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