Chapter 16

¹Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the assemblies of Galatia, so do ye do also. ²On [the] first of [the] week let each of you put by at home, laying up [in] whatever [degree] he may have prospered, that there may be no collections when I come. ³And when I am arrived, whomsoever ye shall approve, these I will send with letters to carry your bounty to Jerusalem: ⁴and if it be suitable that I also should go, they shall go with me. ⁵But I will come to you when I shall have gone through Macedonia; for I do go through Macedonia. ⁶But perhaps I will stay with you, or even winter with you, that ye may set me forward wheresoever I may go. ⁷For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit. ⁸But I remain in Ephesus until Pentecost. ⁹For a great door is opened to me and an effectual [one], and [the] adversaries many. ¹⁰Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear; for he works the work of the Lord, even as I. ¹¹Let not therefore any one despise him; but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren. ¹²Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all [his] will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity. ¹³Be vigilant; stand fast in the faith; quit yourselves like men; be strong. ¹⁴Let all things ye do be done in love. ¹⁵But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,) ¹⁶that ye should also be subject to such, and to every one joined in the work and labouring. ¹⁷But I rejoice in the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus; because they have supplied what was lacking on your part. ¹⁸For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: own therefore such. ¹⁹The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house, salute you much in [the] Lord. ²⁰All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss. ²¹The salutation of [me] Paul with my own hand. ²²If any one love not the Lord [Jesus Christ] let him be Anathema Maranatha. ²³The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you. ²⁴My love [be] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.