◄ Acts 18:21 ►
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Good News Translation
Instead, he told them as he left, "If it is the will of God, I will come back to you." And so he sailed from Ephesus.

New Revised Standard Version
but on taking leave of them, he said, “I will return to you, if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Contemporary English Version
He told them goodbye and said, "If God lets me, I will come back."

New American Bible
but as he said farewell he promised, “I shall come back to you again, God willing.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God willing, he departed from Ephesus.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God willing, he departed from Ephesus.

bade.

Acts 15:29 That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.

Luke 9:61 And another said: I will follow thee, Lord; but let me first take my leave of them that are at my house.

2 Corinthians 13:11 For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take exhortation, be of one mind, have peace. And the God of grace and of love shall be with you.

I must.

Acts 20:16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, lest he should be stayed any time in Asia. For he hasted. if it were possible for him, to keep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of new corn, which is the first of the spring, that thou mayst celebrate the phase to the Lord thy God: because in this month the Lord thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night.

if God.

Acts 19:21 And when these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying: After I have been there, I must see Rome also.

Acts 21:14 And when we could not persuade him, we ceased, saying: The will of the Lord be done.

Matthew 26:39 And going a little further, he fell upon his face, praying and saying: My Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt.

Romans 1:10 Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.

Romans 15:32 That I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.

1 Corinthians 4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.

Philippians 2:19-24 And I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy unto you shortly, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know the things concerning you. . . .

Hebrews 6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.

James 4:15 For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and, If we shall live, we will do this or that.

Context
Paul Returns to Antioch
…20And when they desired him that he would tarry a longer time, he consented not: 21But taking his leave and saying: I will return to you again, God willing, he departed from Ephesus. 22And going down to Caesarea, he went up to Jerusalem and saluted the church: and so came down to Antioch.…
Cross References
Mark 6:46
And when he had dismissed them, he went up to the mountain to pray,

Acts 18:19
And he came to Ephesus and left them there. But he himself, entering into the synagogue, disputed with the Jews.

Acts 18:20
And when they desired him that he would tarry a longer time, he consented not:

Acts 18:24
Now a certain Jew, named Apollo, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, one mighty in the scriptures.

Acts 19:1
And it came to pass, while Apollo was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

Acts 19:17
And this became known to all the Jews and the Gentiles that dwelt a Ephesus. And fear fell on them all: and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

Acts 20:16
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, lest he should be stayed any time in Asia. For he hasted. if it were possible for him, to keep the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem.

Acts 21:29
(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him. whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

Romans 1:10
Always in my prayers making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you.

Romans 15:32
That I may come to you with joy, by the will of God, and may be refreshed with you.

1 Corinthians 4:19
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power.

1 Corinthians 15:32
If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

1 Corinthians 16:7
For I will not see you now by the way: for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit.

1 Corinthians 16:8
But I will tarry at Ephesus, until Pentecost.

Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to all the saints who are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 6:3
And this will we do, if God permit.

James 4:15
For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and afterwards shall vanish away. For that you should say: If the Lord will, and, If we shall live, we will do this or that.

1 Peter 3:17
For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer than doing ill.

Revelation 1:11
Saying: What thou seest, write in a book and send to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.

Revelation 2:1
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith he who holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

Acts 18:20
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