10Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
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Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; …
But 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.
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)We may here observe, I. His thanksgivings for them (Rom. 1:8): First, I thank my God . It is good to begin every thing with blessing God, to make that the alpha and omega of every song, in every thing to give thanks .— My God . He speaks this with delight and triumph. In all our thanksgivings, it is good for us to eye God as our God; this makes every mercy sweet, when we can say of God, “He is min…
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