but said farewell to them and added, “I will come back to you again if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus,

So because these facts are indisputable, you must keep quiet and not do anything reckless.

You know that I did not hold back from proclaiming to you anything that would be helpful, and from teaching you publicly and from house to house,

I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

There the centurion found a ship from Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

And now I advise you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only the ship will be lost.

They also bestowed many honors, and when we were preparing to sail, they gave us all the supplies we needed.

For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now God indeed raised the Lord and he will raise us by his power.

And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

These things happened as examples for us, so that we will not crave evil things as they did.

I praise you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions just as I passed them on to you.

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace for him,

and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you can send me on my journey, wherever I go.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear among you, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I am too.

He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

and through your help to go on into Macedonia and then from Macedonia to come back to you and be helped on our way into Judea by you.